Walks through Resonant Landscape

The Walks through Resonant Landscape are simply recordings of my installation Resonant landscape. In some of the Walks, the installation was being explored by a person; in others, it was running in "demo mode", taking itself for a random walk around the map.

Walk through "Resonant Landscape" No. 2 appears on my CD Centre Bridge from Mode Records

The Walks through Resonant Landscape are pieces derived from my interactive sound installation, Resonant Landscape (1990). In that piece, I was inspired by my walks in the woods around Princeton to make a piece in which listeners could explore an imaginary sonic space. By moving around on a map projected onto a computer screen, a visitor to the installation would encounter different sounds and different mixtures of sounds.

The various Walks through Resonant Landscape are recordings I made at different times of the installation in operation. Lacking the interactive quality of the installation, these tape pieces present a different experience: where Resonant Landscape was concerned with space and exploration, the Walks through Resonant Landscape emphasize time and memory. They can be thought of as a kind of journal--a record of observations made, together with interpretations and fantasies based on those observations.

The Walk through Resonant Landscape No. 2 is dedicated to Edwin E. Pritchett. It appeared as part of the soundtrack for Gus Van Sant's 2003 film Elephant.

On Mode Records: Centre Bridge.

On Nonsequitur: The Arial, Vol. 6 (1994). Includes Walk through "Resonant Landscape" No. 2.

On MK2 Music: Elephant: Musique inspirée et tirée du film (2003). Includes an excerpt of Walk through "Resonant Landscape" No. 2.