artist statements

Loop 1:

Loop one expresses the concepts of temporal perception. In the piece, I used sound clips from Allen Ginsburg, Martin Luther King Jr., unknown fanatical preacher and a man reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Allen Ginsburg talks about how the future will perceive him and his generation and his speculations. MLK jr. talks about changing the future because of an unjust past and dangerous present. The fanatical preacher is representational of the extremist’s beliefs when the future seems to be most uncertain. Compositionally, the piece is laid out to make time feel uncertain and approached with much anxiety.

Loop 2:

Loop two is a symbolic representation of entropy. What better sounds than the sounds of space to help define the ultimate entropy. The universe is in constant decay, immediately after its creation it began to fall apart. In my piece I recreated that sense of birth, which lead to chaos and decay. With its defined beginning, middle and end, this sound piece gives the listener a real sense of entropy as it is defined with sound.

Loop 3:

Loop three talks about the world’s media culture and how it has consumed us all. The sound bits are from Russian TV and radio and some from the US media as well. The use of Russian clips is meant to be ironic and also telling of how America has poisoned the world with their Technicolor dreams and consumerist nightmares. So it follows that the world is full of static and advertisements and mindless entertainment that would control us all.

Loop 4:

Sound as an image. The rain falls hard during those long night in the northern Pacific. The waves and wind come crashing down like the siege of war that presses forth in the foggy air. As you the listener, sit huddled in a small boat offshore listening to destruction of your home. Sitting, hoping for a sign that it is over; there is a break in the shooting; have we won or is there even a home to return to?