Unspooling
Collaborative installation/performance with Cassia Streb, for Automata, Los Angeles, January 22, 2023.
Eight-channel sound installation, for wooden crates prepared with transducers and filled with debris: shattered bits of flowerpot, lava rocks, nails, old keys, pebbles, and bottle caps.
These cycle through field recordings building an apocryphal memory palace:
Lithobolia, a hail of stones and nails; Los Angeles, December 2022
Crickets, tractor-trailer; Route 79 and Brooktondale Road, Slaterville NY, July 2014
Tides, caves; Lake Michigan, Jacksonport WI, December 2018
Metal sheet, snowfall; Ithaca NY, December 2007
High-tension wires, air traffic, crows; Whitney Canyon, Newhall CA, August 2020
Firecrackers, Gillie Mor/Whistle O’er the Lave Out; Lunar New Year, Chung King Court, Los Angeles, January 2023
Live performance within this soundscape, for stiff brush, viola, superball, rough stick, files, ceramic rattles, broken flowerpots, bottle caps, small bells, 10d nails, old keys, and river stones.
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