from Corleone Records comp. LP 'i blame reaganomics' released july 2014.  dedicated to e.h.gombrich.

20 Questions

from 'Drowning on Dry Land' compilation/soundtrack/book, released november 2012.

Coping Mechanism, Common Variation Without Fanfare

these are recordings from the protest against the muslim ban & anti-immigration order at the ri state house in providence, 01.29.2017.  while the event featured many speakers [local politicians, activists and organizers] over a couple hours, this is a condensed version focusing mainly on the massed voices of the crowd and their responses.  documentation.  a listening.  letting others speak.

it is inspired by iannis xenakis' writings, from Formalized Music, on "the sonic phenomena of a political crowd" where chants and slogans are taken up, spread, overlap and transition physically across space through the interactions of many individuals.

what relationships develop in the multiplicity of voices?  rhythms of call and response between amplified speakers and collective participants [not a passive audience].  the speed of sound as echoes disperse between buildings.  the attuning and entrainment of applause and nearly matching pitches of shouts.  all of the slight differences and simultaneous trajectories.  aggregated texture of the soundscape and individual gestures which emerge from it.  movements from along periphery to immersion.  a collective intentional embodiment of space.

crowds 2017.01.29

signal processing. all signals. perpetual study. failure. noise.

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