Liminal X
Stereo fixed media | 2020 | 7:16
Performances:
SEAMUS National Conference (Online), Concert 3, Apr. 24, 2021.
EARS (Eastman Audio Research Studio): “Where.” Hatch Hall, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, Mar. 16, 2021.
This piece is inspired by theories of physics that suggest the existence of additional dimensions. Using a combination of electronically-generated and sampled sounds, the sonic landscape around us seems to fluctuate between the familiar and unfamiliar, and between the known and unknown, occupying a liminal space where these features meet. Sounds decay, grow, and return in ways we can grasp but not fully understand. Time figures greatly into this threshold space: time flows ever forward, but resonances into the past and future hint at the existence of a deeper, unknown reality.