Bottle Piece

instillation

2019

Program Notes

Bottle Piece, is sound instillation constructed during a residency at the I-Park Foundation. It features a speaker is suspended in a five-gallon water jug. The only visible hole in the instillation is the top of the bottle which is too small for the speaker to fit through. I was inspired by the concept of a ship-in-a-bottle in which seemingly impossibly large objects are placed or constructed inside of a bottle. During my time at the residency, the sites and sounds of local birds became the back drop for my time away form the study. These sounds inspired me to not only place the speaker object suspended from a tree, but also to attempt to imitate the sounds of local birds using analog circuits. Birds can be heard in the recording responding to the sounds from the instillation.