City Lines (2021)

higher order ambisonics
compressed stereo version on Research Catalogue

While often taking deconstructed, incomplete, or modified forms, the sounds of City Lines carry traces of my immigration from Florida to Norway through the fall and winter of 2020. The work embraces discovery and unexpected change as it moves between states of abstraction and tangibility—similar to the sense of wonder one may experience as a traveler navigating unknown territory in a new environment.

The sense of journey or narrative is carried further by the shifting scenic episodes: footsteps, human encounters, transit, and other blurry evidence of people carrying-on. Many sounds in the piece were recorded on soundwalks in Oslo.