Flute Loops is a piece that was done in collaboration with Beth Hansen in 2018 for my music project Glitter Vomit. Beth called me from Albuquerque while my phone was connected to my micro radio transmitter in Philadelphia and played for the hyper local radio here. I looped and manipulated the radio broadcast. There is a transformation over distance and also three different way this work existed that happens in this work; from the flute in New Mexico, to the one might hear on the radio in Philadelphia, and than to the recorded sound presented here.
Significant Locations Philadelphia 2019
The iPhone automatically stores a record of places that you frequent, as well as the amount of time that you spent there it is called Significant Locations. In Significant Locations Philadelphia 2019 I perform the voice of Siri narrating an audio tour of my significant locations in Philadelphia. How does this particular story of where I have been perform a different story than the one that I would tell of my own experience? In this work you never arrive at any location and you are constantly directed to the next. By providing spralling walking instructions without a clear destination, It aims to highlight the journey between one location and the next. It looks critically at the routes that are provided by the application, pondering how they might be different from the ones that I would take without it. To give directions is to tell a story of movement through space, to tell a history and to give bias to certain routes over others. When I am performing the voice of Siri I create a hypnotizing and repetitive sound space. An acoustic atmosphere where repetition can act as a chant and utilizes the power of repetition overtime as a means for perceived transformation and perhaps even relaxation. I am critical of how Google has the power to dictate our motion through space particularly when there are certain spaces that are promoted over others and speed and efficiency is favored over scenic and enjoyable routes.