Arts Letters and Numbers
During a residency at Arts Letters and Numbers in Averill Park, New York, Chrystine created an aural journal of her experience through field recordings, clarinet improvisation, and a series of sound installations that explored the interplay of found sound and musical composition and the intersection of immediacy and memory.
Recorded noises like a tapping refrigerator, a buzzing heater, or humming crickets were sound markers or memories of each space. Click on the track link for a sound guide.
This piece is a live recording of looped clarinet phrases overlaid with clarinet improvisation inspired by interior and exterior repetition: the cycles of weaving with a studio loom and the rush of water in a nearby creek.
This piece juxtaposes raw machine noise from a first floor studio with a mobile speaker installation of clarinet long tones shaped by pitches within the recording. The tracks can be played at the same time or individually.
Building sound installations that randomly cycled clarinet and found sound phrases not only created generative and constantly changing compositions, but also incorporated unexpected sonic elements of the installation space – like a creaking floor or a passing car.
These two pieces are live installation recordings paired with video projections.
