music, poetry, art, anthropology
I missed the window
hit beak to brick
fell to the ledge
tried to write a word
and then the tv came on in the other room
drowning out the consonant waves
of dream and early morning light
breeze and sun, bird and a setting moon
now the canned laughter and staged outrage
my flight disoriented into brick
when I aimed for an opening into
the wide sky
Ambient Artifact is a soundscape project that records directly to tape, using the tape as a painter might use different media for textural and color saturation possibilities. On January 11th, 2021, I was asked to do a video and audio recording for a class on virtual presentations for CalArts by John Baffa. The session is a look at my process for the Ambient Artifact series, of course without the benefit of tape saturation. John’s playing with the color saturation helps get the feel of tape even if the capture is digital.