Silbert, Stella, author.

Child's Park Situation.

[Place of publication not identified] : Lateral Addition, 2021.

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Lateral Addition ; 70

"Northampton, MA One afternoon in May 2021, amidst rising temperatures and vaccination rates, I went to Child's Park with my wav recorder. That week, I was feeling stuck and unsure of what to do with my free time and creative projects. I chose the park because it was a place where activity concentrated, which I had noticed during my frequent visits there that spring. Individual people and groups posted up on the grass at sufficient distances from each other to afford some sense of safety, comfort, and privacy, values which everyone's body language and choice of grassy spot seemed to assert. However, the intention to perceive or even participate in an interaction was also an implication of our choice to visit a public park. Located inside a triangle created by two relatively busy streets and one somewhat busy one, there was plenty to hear. I went to the park feeling open to an encounter. I am interested in the impulse to document a particular time and place, the special sausage casing that a recording creates around the events that fill it*, and the independence (but not complete separateness) of the recording from the intentions of any of the actors documented within it, including the recordist. Field recordings are often situations in which multiple actors who don't share the same goal co-create a work together. This encompasses a huge ethical range. Sometimes, these misalignments, conflicting goals, and power struggles are audible in the recording..."-- provided by distributor.

Field recordings.
Enregistrements de terrain (Musique)

Sound recordings.

Laska, Eric, editor.
Library Stack, distributor.
Library Stack.