dedication to a tan nation

Note:This piece is based on an anagram made using the word “dedication.” We patterned our approach on speech, on how speech touches upon cadences but never sustains a regular meter. The work was made to reference popular genres of music, like rap, but in a way that skewed the delivery and undercut the idea of a straight-ahead rhythm. Instead of locking into a rhythm, we attempted to work around one-another, allowing the pace and the cadence to shift and explore its irregularities.

ESION 2

Note:This work was part of a sequence of improvised noise recordings. We approached these works with the sole idea of having every voice speak at once, as a way of expressing the cacophony and contest of language, but also as a way of articulating the noisome energies that underlie coherent utterance.