These sounds are an excerpt from:
3 Weeks in North Central
Florida
Sound Installation: sound, custom audio cd, cd player, speakers, wooden
reverb boxes, vent covers
2004
Western Bridge
Seattle WA US
Sounds trickle through vents in the ceiling: rolling Atlantic waves, children
playing, birds, leaves, airplanes.
The initial impression, a subtle feeling that one might be in North Central
Florida, or, ....
The “place” described by the sounds in the ceiling vent seems
to naturally be one upon initial listening,
but that “place” is really a collage of recordings made in
different locations and times, slowly changing, a reproduction.
The vents are also not really vents; there are two ventilation covers
installed into the ceiling
which look exactly like the third, which does serve its' intended function.
These contain hidden hand-made wooden reverb-boxes and audiophile speakers
connected to an amplifier and cd player on the floor above.
My naive notion was that Florida was a vast jungle swamp with humanity
bordering the edge of it’s wild regions.
The reality I experienced upon visiting was an amazing variety of plants
and wildlife, existing in seemingly primeval swamps and pristine bays,
interwoven with suburban houses, airports, golf courses, highways, and
strip malls.
The sounds were recorded in various locations in North Central Florida,
USA, during a February 2003 residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.
