This is a radio performance of soundscapes layered upon soundscapes from Jackson Park and 63rd St Beach, time folded in on itself with echoes of Ida B. Wells writings on the absence of the black body at this site mixed with recordings from Lou Harrison, Artistic Heritage Ensemble, Exploding Star Orchestra, Robert AA Lowe, Anthony Braxton and Josh Abrams. My expectation is that this piece gives us the space to contemplate and meditate on our own presence.
Jackson
Park was an integral part of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Ida B. Wells
published “THE REASON WHY The
Colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition. The
Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian Literature”
This
pamphlet protests the absence of African-Americans at the fair and also
protests the booming prison industrial complex and lynching of black men all
across America. She also
highlights the progress of African Americans since the emancipation as equally
important and intertwined with the progress of America. Recently, there has
been an effort to restore the dune ecology at the 63rd Street beach, and the
restoration of the Wooded Isle. Jackson Park and the beach is also an active
hub for recreation and cultural activity in the community. I have been
recording a diverse body of programmatic, architectural and ecological spaces
that comprise Jackson Park. The Rebuild Foundation is a key factor in the
cultural, architectural and urban restoration of the communities surrounding
Jackson Park. These programs and site offers us a re-presencing in the face of an abscencing of the
black body due to violence, corrupt criminal justice system and the prison
industrial complex.
re/presencing - Norman W. Long
Double Concerto: Epicuros - Double concerto : for violin and cello with Javanese gamelan - Lou
Harrison - Soundscapes [sound recording] : works by Lou Harrison, Henry Cowell, Paul Reale -
re/presencing - Norman W. Long
Make Way To The City / The Arc Of Slavery #72, Galactic Parables: Volume 1 - Exploding Star Orchestra
re/presencing - Norman W. Long
Magick Creek - We Know Each Other Somehow - Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe* & Ariel Kalma
re/presencing - Norman W. Long
On The Beach - On The Beach- Philip Cohran And The Artistic Heritage Ensemble
re/presencing - Norman W. Long
Represencing - Represencing - Joshua Abrams
re/presencing - Norman W. Long
Side 1 Cut 2 - Creative Orchestra Music 1976 - Anthony Braxton
Walking 2 - for hyde park - Norman W. Long
re/presencing - Norman W. Long
Double Concerto: Epicuros - Double concerto : for violin and cello with Javanese gamelan - Lou
Harrison - Soundscapes [sound recording] : works by Lou Harrison, Henry Cowell, Paul Reale -
re/presencing - Norman W. Long
Make Way To The City / The Arc Of Slavery #72, Galactic Parables: Volume 1 - Exploding Star Orchestra
re/presencing - Norman W. Long
Magick Creek - We Know Each Other Somehow - Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe* & Ariel Kalma
re/presencing - Norman W. Long
On The Beach - On The Beach- Philip Cohran And The Artistic Heritage Ensemble
re/presencing - Norman W. Long
Represencing - Represencing - Joshua Abrams
re/presencing - Norman W. Long
Side 1 Cut 2 - Creative Orchestra Music 1976 - Anthony Braxton
Walking 2 - for hyde park - Norman W. Long
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