Sound composition with text score, 07:03
Liner notes for sound piece printed as 4-color lithograph with chine-colle, 22″ x 30″, edition of 15
Photographs using Google Earth, site of sound
2016
Field recordings made in part while traveling with Land Arts of the American West mixed with found and appropriated sounds creating a portrait of place and time in New Mexico. Using Google Earth, images of each place where the sound was made appear in order the sounds are heard with description. Lithograph with liner notes for the recording printed at Tamarind Institute.
Liner notes print, edition of 15
Detail of text and paper layers
Cebolla Wilderness, NM | Gun shots from elk hunters (beginning); Too Many Sands to Know score performance; Coyotes (end)
El Vado, NM | Elk mating and territory calls in the rain
Gila Wilderness, NM | Gila river at night playing an instrument made by Orien MacDonald
Valle Vidal, NM | Sound excerpt from “Silence on the Mesa” performance with Andrea Gohl
Albuquerque, NM | Police siren; Flamenco class counting
Shiprock, Navajo Nation, NM | Fracking machines
White Sands, NM | Atom bomb archival explosion with audience; Vocals recorded in National Park bathroom