notice, is an environmental surround sound piece played on a 5.1 speaker/sub system. the track is ~ 7:30 minutes long and plays on a loop. The audience is welcome to walk around the room, sit on the bench, or experience a combination of both.
This video is in part a documentation of the installation.
The track contains self-authored prose, from my poem "SETTLE ME LANDLOCKED," field recordings from various locations including New York, Santa Fe, and Austin, as well as original musical components.
Throughout the day shadows and highlights are uniquely and happenstancially cast by sunlight, nearby traffic, and wind.
Featuring the voice of: Yuki Tanaka and Helyn Rain
SETTLE ME LANDLOCKED
settle me landlocked, equator, the warm saint of sunsets are your hands, seeing, this all bright yellow forsythia bush glowing dusk. bring me full bloom undercover, inward my unraveling looking skyward whispers, fear of change, becoming night animal unpierced satin, the eclipsing bud of insecurity sucking the sweet out of the sun. fielding the new moon bites my head, dark, licks around the nectar house where i keep the bright promise to myself about how nothing matters like your hands, your skin my imagination fills lonely my body blushes new blue blood with blossoms, fear and hurt. i press nights for sweetness, drink atlantic swimming, kiss we into my vocabulary until it becomes body (mine, ours) the we i dream of is exciting ! sleeps with salt, smells like rosemary, mint and gin, a garden in all seasons, constellating its own celebration with yellow petals strewn across the wet field that turns over so slowly the day becomes new and newer, and newness changes. what does it mean to notice the thick air chapping the afternoon glow, when it is yellow, hold the way a child does an animal, we, fall away so quietly
