Airports for Music
“Airports for Music” is an ongoing collection of compositions that extend location recordings with synthetic sound, produced under the metaphor of sound as fragrance.
These pieces begin outdoors, sitting comfortably with a portable recording device. In a location that seems to have a particular varietal of silence, I hold the microphone in my hand. While recording for 5-10 minutes without headphones, I try to listen to everything that I imagine the microphone is capturing. I later return to each of these recordings and compose lightly around them while preserving the original recording. Unlike acoustic ecology or ambient music, these pieces exist as fragrances rooted in memory and place, and diffused into the air like whorls of color wafting from your speakers.
