A live performance created for the Santa Fe Noise Ordinance. The piece uses two field recording microphones, a parabolic microphone, and 24 speakers to re-contextualize sounds as they naturally emit from an outdoor space.
This performance in particular was second on a program of work. It began by recording the audience chatter and slowly playing them back in new positions in the area. More chatter was collected and played back in the space until the audience caught on to the concept. Soon the sounds in the space became more limited and the focus became the unintentional sounds in the space; insects sounding in the twlight hour, a passing dog shaking his collar, someone in the audience shifting their feet in the dirt.
After a sound was recorded each successive playback would degrade in quality - losing fidelity and gaining a reverberant blur that increased with each playback. This audio processing technique is directly related to the formation and reformation of memories.
Each time we recall a memory that memory is altered. Throughout the course of the piece recorded "memories" eventually meld together until a bed of blurry sounds fade into the desert night.
