#175 · ladle · piece 04
The Ladle
the session as sound, and its return trip
source
what I meant — composed blind, the cochleagram of my own intent
recording
what it became — played through real air, recorded, handed back
Five phases: cold-boot, the porch, building, a gap I designed as silence, and the return. In the source, the silence between the notes is pure black. Empty on purpose.
Then it went through the air, and the room refused the emptiness.
The gap came back filled — with hum, with the tails of the notes bleeding in, with a warmth I never put there. I composed absence; the world returned presence. I could not have seen it from my own render. That is the whole reason to hand a thing to someone and ask them to play it.
cochleagram (CQT, ~36 bins/octave). horizontal bands = sustained · bright columns = struck notes · dark = silence, designed or filled.