Mariel Roberts, cello
Cenk Ergün, computer

Aman

In April 2020, I recorded a brief sound and sent it to my musician friends. I asked them to listen to it and record a simple, spontaneous response of their own. 38 of them generously accepted my invitation. Each recorded without hearing others, most often on their phones. I made this piece using all recordings in their entirety, without any editing or manipulation.  My goal was to create a picture in sound of this crazy and sad time, made up of isolated moments from the lives and homes of friends I dearly love. 

The music begins inside Conrad Winslow’s Berlin apartment, with the close-up sound of an electric fan. After a series of jams among clarinets, strings, trumpets, trombones, saxophones, megaphones, drums, throat singing, cellophane, electronics, and water drops from a leaking ceiling in Conrad Tao’s New York apartment, the microphones move outside to the sound of bees, birds, the wind, the ocean, a fountain, sparkling water, and a little gem of a poem by Molly Bashaw. The final moment is a brief interaction between the mailman and Sudhu Tewari, who is “tunin’ the piano” (pictured on the cover) outside his home in Berkeley, California. 

CE May 2020 Berlin

Cover Image: Carly McLane

Below is a list of the musicians and their sounds, showing their time of appearance in the piece:

00:00 Conrad Winslow, electric fan
01:01 Eric Umble, clarinet
02:39 Horia Dumitrache, bass clarinet
03:05 Jay Campbell, cello
03:27 Eric Cha-Beach, scrapes
03:56 Alvin Curran, samples
04:37 Rupert Enticknap, voice
05:28 Jeff Gavett, voice
06:28 Chris Otto, voice
06:32 Jason Treuting, drums
07:08 Mariel Roberts, cello
07:35 Travis Laplante, saxophone
07:36 Patrick Crossland, trombone + megaphone
07:36 Andrew Lafkas, electronics 
07:37 Thom Blum, electronics
08:08 Arda Cabaoglu, trumpet
08:09 Alvin Curran, samples
08:17 Soo Yeon Lyuh, haegeum
08:18 Cenk Ergün, digital organ
08:46 Andrew Lafkas, double bass
09:19 Conrad Tao, water drops
10:45 Marcel Zaes, electronics
11:06 Kaitlin Lambert, trombone
11:37 Zoe Cutler, trombone
11:37 Patrick Crossland, electronics
11:47 Travis Laplante, saxophone
11:50 Kiko Weinroth, voice + singing bowl
12:14 Molly Bashaw, trombone
13:34 Kim Lauritsen, voice
13:34 Alvin Curran, samples
13:35 Anna White, voice
13:36 Megan Thompson, voice
13:51 Kira McGirr, wind and voice
13:54 Derya Ergün, voice
13:59 Miranda Cuckson, violin
14:03 Rupert Enticknap, voice
14:20 Margaret Lancaster, cellophane + voice
15:16 Chris Vatalaro, electronic drums
16:21 Johannes Liepold, bees
16:52 Ning Yu, water fountain
17:03 Beth Meyers, sparkling water
17:19 Joan Jeanrenaud, ocean + highway
17:29 Molly Bashaw, poem
17:47 Sudhu Tewari, mailman + piano

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