new work for Ertwhile Amplify 2020: Quarantine Festival

acts within time (2020)

listen here: https://amplify2020.bandcamp.com/album/acts-within-time

All sounds recorded at home during quarantine or taken from mobile phone voice memo recordings captured before quarantine.

Instrumental recordings performed by TAK Ensemble during an impromptu reading in the anechoic chamber at Nokia Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ in December 2019: Laura Cocks (flutes), Madison Greenstone (clarinets), Marina Kifferstein (violin), Ellery Trafford (percussion), and Charlotte Mundy (voice).

Recordings of floors creaking captured in May 2019 in the Vienna homes of Haydn, Beethoven, and the birth and death houses of Schubert. These recordings appear in the piece unedited in the order in which the homes were occupied.

Additional recordings captured at home, performed in collaboration with Jennifer Eberhardt between March-May 2020 in New York City.

Finished June 24, 2020.

credits

released June 26, 2020