I hear a silent dissonance (2024)
Handmade drums, modified cymbals, objects collected from fire-affected forests, speakers, bronze bowl, scent designed to mimic fire-affected forests
Text PDF: The text written by the artist is a part of the work.
Sound: Except from the recording of the percussion instruments
The sound recording and the performance at The Plumb (Toronto, ON) were made in collaboration with Ben Bennett.
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Ben Bennett is a Philadelphia-based improvising percussionist who plays a compact pile of self-made drums, stretched membranes, and other objects which are continually rearranged in the course of playing, and sounded with techniques of the hit, rub, and blow varieties. A branching path of musical de-materialization has led to other forms of performance, including self-vitiating monologues, and the long and repetitive YouTube series, Sitting and Smiling and Walking and Talking. His work tends toward themes of pointlessness, paradox, and stupidity.