Last weekend I performed in a show organized by my friend Noah (Illumination Station) as a benefit for RAICES, which raised over $700 for efforts to reunite immigrant families who have been forcibly separated at the so-called “border.”
Noah has released the recordings of these performances on his Bandcamp page, and proceeds from this album will also go to RAICES.
(i guess i don’t know how to embed here)
My piece for this show was performed on a 6U, Morphagene-centered Eurorack case, and a Buchla Music Easel. It was a structured improv inspired by the work of Sun Ra, and featuring field recordings of my feet walking in sand and waves, and the sounds of metal water bottles being struck together. I’m not capable of musically expressing the level of sadness that is being forced in my name in the US “border” zone right now, but some melancholy nonetheless came through, I think.