The Witness Experimentations by Talking Gong at Twin Star Orchards, Mill Brook Preserve, Spring Farm

June 25th 2021
Video
Region
East Coast USA
Researcher
Source
Pauline Oliveros: The Witness (1989)
Formats
Music
Score
Site-specific
Disciplines
Deep listening practices
Field recording
Technology
Sub-acoustic
Themes
Healing
Listening as activism
Worlding

Talking Gong - Claire Chase (flutes), Susie Ibarra (percussion), Alex Peh (keyboards, percussion) - together with the electronic musician Senem Pirler, spent a week exploring Oliveros' score THE WITNESS in different locations in the Hudson Valley in New York, the area that Oliveros made her home for 30 years

The quartet staged each morning's experimentation in a different location (beaver ponds, nature preserves, bird sanctuaries and an abandoned mine).