Open Space
instrumentation | 4 performers with various writing utensils & 20 sheets of paper
date | 2019
duration | c. 10+
premiere | Western Carolina University Percussion Department on November 17th, 2019; video recorded February 15th, 2022
note | This work is part of a long line engaging heavily with ritual and space-building. Those considerations are entirely for the performers and facilitators however. The integration of ritual in contemporary music spaces has generally been a colonizing act-- reclamation requires boundaries. Community is hard to come by and creating that space here is still a radical act; as is any that works to expand the potentiality of listening and abstraction of physical phenomena. I'm still looking to make new myths around lost ancestors & languages, just in more private ways lately.
date | 2019
duration | c. 10+
premiere | Western Carolina University Percussion Department on November 17th, 2019; video recorded February 15th, 2022
note | This work is part of a long line engaging heavily with ritual and space-building. Those considerations are entirely for the performers and facilitators however. The integration of ritual in contemporary music spaces has generally been a colonizing act-- reclamation requires boundaries. Community is hard to come by and creating that space here is still a radical act; as is any that works to expand the potentiality of listening and abstraction of physical phenomena. I'm still looking to make new myths around lost ancestors & languages, just in more private ways lately.
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