Scores for Kezar Lake
36" x 36"
digital print
2015
This is a digital print featuring my use of an experimental musical instrument/sculpture, called the Poemophone, in live performance while canoeing on Kezar Lake. This performance explores the use of landscape as a visual score while using the canoe as a resonant body to amplify the sounds of the Poemophone.
Listen to an audio sample below.
In September of 2014, I spent three weeks living and working alone in a cabin at Hewnoaks Residency, near the White Mountains in Maine. There I focused on integrating field recordings and site specific performances into the language-based works I had been creating with experimental musical instruments that I have built. I brought recording equipment and a group of my experimental instruments to the residency to compose, perform and record in the landscape of New England. I spent my time editing on site, making compositional decisions based on being able to return to specific locations for further experimentation. Hiking each night I made nocturnal field recordings of the loons and owls in the region. By day I canoed the lake, studying the tree-line and the shore-line for use as a visual score. An audio CD and booklet of this work is forthcoming.