Working on a show remotely is challenging but it reminds me of Giuseppe Zambonini’s point in “Making in a time of necessity,” that adversity, and I am paraphrasing, adversity is the mother of invention. I’m also reminded of Frank Zappa and his group the Mothers of Invention, a collage storm of jazz rock if I’ve ever heard some.
The project is all about place and site, but I’ve been away, so a few weeks ago I was reminded of some wonderful work my pal Renee A Rhodes made back in the early 20-teens. Being super smart and prophetic, she used Google Earth to make movies taking us places we couldn’t really go. This was actually prior to the drone epidemic. I needed to get close to Mount Baker while working in Lake Tahoe. And I also now appreciate the disparity, the failure of the technology to really take me there. It echos the fact that our instruments pale in comparison to the ecological knowledge present in the trees. So let the glitch in.
I’m particularly into the deep bass from 2:13 to 2:30. Still learning to fly GE [Google Earth], but I feel that this with the addition of live action footage I will get next week… this is getting thick.
This is just a test! I am still trying to figure out how to translate the data manually. Dr Bunn made the amazing app that transforms tree ring data into sound and visual wave forms. I decided to narrow the frequency to match the musical range of an electric guitar. Next I need to figure out how I want to translate the data into musical notes. This may require some adjustments, multiplying the whole lot by a number to get it up to between 82.41 and 987.77. That’s the next step. Then it’s time to look for patterns and anomalies because if you are paying attention, anomalies are seeming to become the new patterns.