The piece is an audio tapestry of sounds like drilling, fracking, stirring, scraping, and hammering, with a human voice woven through.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The political context of Earthworks is a response to the industrial plunder of the planet, aiming to foster awareness and reciprocity with the Earth.
Performer Biography
Sylvia Milo, the voice on this album, won an NY Innovative Theater Award with Nathan Davis for their score to her play 'The Other Mozart'.
Composition History
Earthworks was originally produced as a sound installation for the exhibit 'Planetary Home Improvement: From Just-in-time to Geological Time'.
Recording & Production
Field recordings for Earthworks were made in New York, Woodstock, the Calanques (France), and near Cascais (Portugal), with extraction samples sourced from www.soundsofchanges.eu.
Composer Biography
Nathan Davis, the composer, is also an active percussionist who has premiered hundreds of works and performed as a concerto soloist on hammered dulcimer.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Nathan Davis's Earthworks is an acousmatic piece that combines land art, environmental activism, and musique concrète, orchestrating sounds of material extraction and use.
