In this second, final part of my self-reflective solo episode, I continue to explain about my current master's thesis project: a site-specific sound art piece on cassette tape, titled The Silence of Sea Tower. I reminisce on all the challenges and wonders I have come across during this year-long engagement, talk about how this whole thing in many ways feels like one big puzzle I am trying to piece together, and I reflect on how it is like an investigation with clues and surprises and red threads. I get very poetic about the writing process and all the similarities between the sound composition and the written text, and I get into the technical details and my methods of both those processes. I also share my struggles with exhaustion and loneliness, and contemplate whether I am resting or procrastinating when I am not working. I try to explain how this auto-fictional work and isolated lifestyle has blurred the lines between fiction and reality, and how I might be performing the sound of my everyday life without realising it. In this chapter I also expand on the performance aspect of the work, a concert iteration titled Narrative Noise performed on an orchestra of old ghettoblasters, and reveal what my future plans are in that direction.
For inquiries about purchasing The Silence of Sea Tower on cassette tape, send an email to verbal.art@protonmail.com
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