Airports for Music
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Airports for Music is an ongoing collection of compositions that juxtapose location recordings with synthetic sound. While inspired in part by acoustic ecology and site-specific art, these pieces are produced with a looser guiding metaphor, of sound as a fragrance: aerosolized materiality suspended in air, carried gently to the listener’s ears.
Works in this collection have been serially published to Nina Protocol as an experiment with self-publishing alternatives to the existing major streaming platforms. In particular, this project benefits from being able to associate the music with a primary body of text, and can easily include works by other interested contributors.
« These pieces begin with listening-through-recording, in which I sit with a portable recording device for 5-10 minutes in a location that seems well suited to a kind of silence, and I try to listen to everything that I imagine the microphone can hear. At a later point, I return to each of these recordings and compose a piece around them, but leaving each original location recording largely unedited. These pieces exist almost as fragrance, passing clouds of colouration suspended in air. »