Installations in 2004

"Threetimesfalling" is a work about deceptive listening, narrative decay, the overbearing weight of gravity on physical & emotional states, containment & leakage, junk culture and technological destruction. It is a work designed to capture, dissect and manipulate a single sonic radio event, sculpting new degraded realities from an original source (a short psycho-drama that depicts a heated argument between a man and a woman resulting in a violent tumble down the stairs - complete with its own background soundtrack). This clear contained original mutates into something harsher and more distant through a series of active layerings: a radio (and the entire contained scene playing from within) takes its turn falling down the stairs, and the results are rerecorded including all ambient sounds & crashings. This rerecording is then reinserted into the player and again
takes its turn at a gravitational crashing; again the results are rerecorded. What we have at this point is original, mutant, and son of mutant; three very different versions, increasingly violent and abstracted.

In terms of presentation, the stairwell will be divided into three levels of play; the bottom path will feature the most distanced version... yet, what seems like chaos at the base of the stairwell clarifies into something more decipherable as the listener ascends & gets closer to the top level of the stairwell. At the top, the clarity of the actual radio event is revealed to any participant willing to go all the way up. The total work, therefore, emphasizes a downwards verticality on one hand (gravity & the act of falling), and an upwards verticality on the other (increased clarity of reading moving up).