Beachfront Property III
Samuel Hertz performing Beachfront Property III, 29 January, 2019. Photo Credit: Opera North
Incorporating aspects from the three standalone pieces comprising Beachfront Property (I. Famous Last Words; II. Compound Memory; III. Patterned Response/Heliotropic Debauchery). Examining topics such as horizons of thought, geologic sound, the ‘infra-‘ as a scale of inquiry, and the history and memory of sound, the audio/video/text pieces making up Beachfront Property use their own interior logics and narratives to re-frame being, listening, and feeling within a changing environment.
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Isn’t it funny how the horizon always seems to slip away?
And what might we accomplish by staring at it?
