enclosures by Kari Watson

silhouettes conjugate environment into embodiment, then back into environment again. whistles and whispers become isomorphic with track, trace, texture. buoyancies. bubbles. an index of the slippages between nomenclatures—recursions between body and base, person and place. attendant to the surplus of pressures and refractions, cribbed from (en)closure(s). ruptures accumu- late, replicate, ripple—sharing coordinates, yet splitting intensities. coextensive affinities, cathexes. captured corpora, contortions. imbricated histories, opacities. tremors and tectonic transpositions.
- Gasira Timir

enclosures addresses issues of space, place, reverberation and resonance across five pieces. An exercise in scale, each piece is a portal: a biome, containing its own environment, weather, sense of time. Featuring juxtaposed convolution reverbs that transport an ensemble through real and imaginary spaces, beatings between Just Intonation and Equal Temperament, a triptych of environ- mental portraits, an exercise in the musicalized resonance of the harp’s pedal mechanism, and finally, an exploration of precarious sounds and sonic expiration, these works are attempts at worldbuilding that conserve intimacy—each piece a sonic imprint, a palimpsest of both positive and negative space, a constellation of both event and aftermath.
- Kari Watson

Sawyer Editions is a small-batch label specializing in contemporary, experimental, and improvised music, especially of new and unreleased artists.

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