Music from Empty Holes

(2003) Multichannel audio, 31:00. Photo: recording 4th Movement

A multi-channel electroacoustic work revealing the secrets of enclosed spaces. An empty milk jug in a rainstorm, empty drain pipes at the top of a windy hill, and the interior of a woodstove are the basis for studies of resonance, both sonic and phenomenological. The piece culminates with the sound of 65 bottles of different sizes, left strewn about after a wedding, being filled slowly with water and layered one atop the other. The harmonic structure gradually separates from their sense of “bottleness”, dividing into a hail storm of harmonic percussion against a background of wavering identity.