I finished up a fun project focused on “Montezuma Well” near Rimrock, AZ. It features a serendipitous field recording made at this remarkable natural spring and sinkhole in July 2024 and a voice over describing the important geological and cultural features of the site. The recording will come out sometime through the Wildlife Sound Recording Society’s sound magazine. There’s an accompanying article that hopefully will be published in their journal sometime this year. All this was inspired by a fantastic guided tour of the Well by Larry Stevens from the Museum of Northern Arizona and the Spring Stewardship Institute. But you can have a sneak-preview listen here!
Super excited that soundsketches of a desert suburb has been accepted to be played in its entirety as part of the Radiophrenia Sound Art Festival. Radiophrenia will take over the airwaves of 87.5 in Glasgow from April 7-21, 2025. Soundsketches wil be released on its own on Feb 3 through all the usual platforms.
It’s been an informative and interesting couple of days at the Friends of the Verde River’s biannual watershed conference. Keynote address given by former Arizona governor Bruce Babbit, who has been instrumental in advancing the health and sustainability of the state’s riparian habitats. Friends prepares a Report Card, which I encourage you to check out.
I had an amazing time with Jana Winderen and an incredible group of artists and creative thinkers at CAMP’s ‘listening around the surface” workshop/residency in the French Pyrenees in August. Jana’s personal style and way of engagement was transformative and the ideas and projects of the other workshoppers were deeply inspiring. I’ve never felt so excited to be working in sound art. Thank you to Jana, CAMP, and all my new friends.
Three sound compositions, duration, gray aquatic, and needlebox, were broadcast on July 30, 2023 on the always interesting and engaging framework radio/podcast program. Thanks to Patrick for sharing the work and for keeping this incredible platform going for many years. All three are available for streaming and purchase on my Bandcamp site.
My field recordings of the pedestrian bridge at Tempe Town Lake were included in the Cities & Memory collection “Music for Sleep” and were used by the French composer Daniel Chudley-LeCorre’s piece “Lucidity’s Keep.” Somehow there’s no attribution to the field recordists as co-composers. Hmm.
