Ballad (2008) audio soundscape
9 minutes 17 seconds
Originally composed for six-channels - now streaming the stereo mix

This work is a tragic love ballad created for feedback between a speaker and microphone, a music box and a grand piano. I captured sounds as the music box lay on the piano's strings, recording and enacting curious physical relationships upon the piano and music box in that reverberant space. In this song you can hear the whirring of the music box's motor, the cranking of its key, as well as the scraping and hitting of the insides of the piano. Pure tones of microphone/monitor feedback function as members of a chorus, narrating the interactions with the all-seeing perspective of contemporary digital recording.