Title: Today it is all around us./


An audio piece compiled from recordings made on an RCA Digital Voice Recorder from January through March 2007 in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France.

– Compact Disc with Hand Made Case and booklet- signed edition of 10.

– Between the Months of January and March 2007 I created a series of low fidelity recordings documenting various encounters and experiences I had while traveling. This piece brings together portions of this audio in an arrangement which illuminates the relationships present between these activities recorded. This piece is an attempt to re-orchestrate these records of my personal experiences into groupings which reveal the latent possibilities for deeper consideration. I place my emphasis on the more mundane of these experiences as a way of expressing the inherent potential for meaning in these or any similar events which might otherwise go unnoticed.



• Introduction –
o Repetition is potent/the night, the morning, the night...– The living room of the apartment in Versailles, France recorded at 8:00am, at 11:00pm and again at 8:00am.


• Section 1 – A line with many branches o We are as still as possible, in waiting, and with various trajectories – Listening to the introductory
announcements on board Air India flight 144 prior to take off.


• Section 2 – Absence and Presence/Not there: finally there: always there o Expectation and the lack of fruition– No one speaking at the Speaker’s corner in Hyde Park, London.

o The reward in waiting for the occurrence of a limited event– Standing patiently in wait of the sound of a particular goat’s bell at the Salon de l'Agriculture in Paris.

o Abundance and the corresponding loss of interest– The bombardment of bell sounds at the bell sales counter at the Salon de l'Agriculture.



• Section 3 – Vertical and horizontal transport/Intervals of rest
o Waiting and boarding and waiting/A full train and little conversation – A short portion of the train ride from Versailles Rive Droit to Saint Lazare station in Paris. – Montreuil, Viroflay, Chaville stops.

o Waiting and boarding and waiting/Alone with recorded announcements in an elevator– The automated announcement in the elevator at the Foyles bookstore, Charing Cross Road, London. – 4th floor to Ground floor stops.



• Section 4 – It can always be/It was once
o The potential is always there anyway/Manually exploring the properties of one’s environment– The sound of touching the heater in the basement of the Foam photography museum in Amsterdam.

o It was there for its moment and now it is the past/Specific ephemeral instances revealed through manipulation–Quickly scanning the spectrum of the FM radio dial.



• Conclusion
o Quite busy at hardly being there/They pass by; I pass by/Considering the web of everyone’s immediate plans – A walk on Boulevarde Raspail in Paris on a particularly busy afternoon.