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A surround sound composition installed at Berkeley BART Plaza, built from over a hundred recordings made during the Covid-19 quarantine — amateur and professional musicians and singers from around the world, caught in the private act of practice: tuning, rehearsing, experimenting, warming up. Sounds not meant to be heard publicly.
The piece moves with care but without resolution — Laos to Tennessee, a child humming to an unidentified string instrument, the polished and the unfinished placed in proximity without hierarchy. The listener can’t locate a center. Familiar sounds arrive in unfamiliar combinations and the chaos is the composition.
Presented as part of the Berkeley BART Plaza’s ongoing multi-channel public sound art series.
The Moments Before was included in the Berkeley Bart Plaza’s ongoing series of multi-channel public sound art presentations.
