Autumn Folds, 2022
(installation debuted at the WaveCave Gallery, Los Angeles California, fall 2022)
Kyle Bates
Enter and listen.
Walk and/or sit.
Negate your vision (masks provided, disposable),
or don’t.
The sky is clouded dark green. A train cuts through. Cicadas emerge after seventeen years. To drink all day.
The plane’s wind tunnel. An alp. A dream of failure. Over snow shoveled for twenty six minutes.
Sirens warn of tornados. That white horse turns and walks
away again.
Autumn Folds is composed around fragments of sound collected from two distinct places and time periods in my life: travels to Chicago over the past two years and to a residency in La Barre, France, in August. These recordings are mediated by a third place and time, autumn on a mountain in Val Verde, where I synthesized sounds (using a Buchla Easel Command and Moog Subharmonicon) with pitches derived from their spectra. A mirrored synthetic counterpart was created for each field recording.
Three banks of sounds (Chicago, La Barre, Synthetic) are being played in semi-random sequences––every recording in each bank is sounded once and then the entire bank is played again in a different order. The banks are sent to their own stereo pair of speakers (six channels). The sounds exist asynchronously, layered in the air in endless permutations. Time and place are enfolded presently in auditory experiences both real and actual.
The eye masks and title of the piece are nods towards Francisco López and Gilles Deleuze.
Max programming by Gabe Postle.
