silt

amplified piccolo, amplified snare drum, vibraphone, objects, sinewaves
2022

for/with Yang Chen

On percussionist and artist Yang Chen’s debut solo album, each track is a joint endeavour with a collaborator who they asked the question: “what are you longing for?” During the long stretch of 2021 and 2022 where Yang and I worked together on this piece, I went over to their house almost every week, to talk, to eat, and to play music together.

The resulting piece is a kind of assemblage of everything we attempted during those sessions: improvising, experimentation with amplification, brief uses of graphic notation, and collective listening. We wanted to create a small, tender, vulnerable world, where we worked out slowly and softly how to listen with each other. I’m very grateful to share the result, and to share space with Yang and many other colleagues and loved ones on this record.

album: “longing for__”, people | places | records, 2022
video: Serville Poblete and Luisana Reyes