“Recycled Soundscapes” is an in-progress sound installation by composer/musician Joshua Marquez that explores the sonic possibilities of discarded materials and the sites that contain them. Using recordings taken from “found sounds” at RAIR, Marquez uses these source materials to compose soundscapes, melodies, textures, and harmonies. From the ambient noises of machinery to the sounds of broken instruments, all of the sounds in the work exclusively use recordings taken while in-residence at RAIR. Additionally, the recordings were captured on reel-to-reel and cassette tapes found at RAIR and used microphones, effects pedal/devices, and speakers salvaged from the waste stream in the composition process. The audience will experience/hear the sound installation through on site dumpsters and other objects that have been transformed into loudspeakers. The project aims to evaluate our relationship to sound, noise, music, and the boundaries that define these designations while attempting to find music in everyday sounds, giving new life to material waste and transforming RAIR’s “tipping floor” into an immersive sound environment.
This event also includes experimental music performances by Marquez/McDermott and Ciyadh Wells. Engaging with RAIR’s “tipping floor,” these performers will improvise, react, and utilize this unique, alternative space in ways that will encourage listeners to evaluate their relationship to sound in the most unlikely of places with unusual sounds. The event will conclude with a performance of Marquez’s “Recycled Soundscapes” which will use a dumpster and other objects from RAIR’s landfill as loudspeakers.
7pm – Joshua Marquez + Ryan McDermott: guitar duo
experimental, improvised music altering the guitars and amplifiers with materials found at RAIR
7:30pm – Ciyadh Wells: solo guitar performance
experimental music pushing the boundaries of the electric guitar
8pm – Joshua Marquez: “Recycled Soundscapes”, sound installation
electronic music sound installation using pre-recorded and live sounds taken/performed at RAIR, transforming a dumpster and other objects into immersive speakers