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Click for stream Click to make donation The title is an alternate phrasing on poet Ed Roberson's book "To See the Earth Before the End of the World". Over the past years, artist LaMont Hamilton has been collecting biodata — field and electromagnetic recordings — from around the world to gain "a ground zero understanding of our changing Earth."
Hearing glaciers cracking, smelling forest fires, the mechanical cacophony of land being razed — all felt on a cellular level. “Music is the healing force of the universe.” Healing is the future of sound. Conversely, sound has also been used as a method of warfare, of manipulation, destruction. Thus the lines have been drawn. To echo Anthony Braxton, “a re-examination of our experience in this realm” is now in order. Understanding this is to understand our smallness in the equation, our finitude. Reckoning with that smallness is a necessary preparation for the voyage this work hopes to achieve.
This event is part of Soundwave NEXT, a new partnership between Gray Area and Soundwave, two veteran San Francisco arts organizations to explore the future of sound. The program invites curators, artists, producers, and collectives to present new performance-based works or productions based in sound. This program seeks to answer what is the future of sound as a construct and ask “What’s next?” for the medium as it relates to our collective social, cultural, technological and/or political experience.
Cost: Free / Donation Based