Professionally duplicated CD-R, edition of 200, die cut recycled sleeve w/ insert, signed & numbered.
By artist:
"this limited edition was created as a holiday release for winter 2007, and was based on a score by george brecht from his water yam scores. the score reads:
a christmas play
for joseph cornell.
empty snow-covered field, frosted horizon sun glaring through the mist. in the near distance a bathtub lies on its side, open toward us.
first child: do you see that dark figure behind the creche?
second child: (does not speak)
1959 - 62
i used field recordings from norway as the empty snow covered field, frosted horizon, and sun through mist. i tapped my bathtub with mallets as the bathtub in the near distance, and used my voice as both child voices. i also added the sounds of a 1930's home made christmas recording, and a vietnamese instrument purchased by my family several years ago as a gift. the cover photo was a found snapshot from 1959 that certainly reminded me of some of cornell's boxes"
empty snow-covered field, frosted horizon, sun through mist:
recorded in Norway April 2007.
bathtub in the near distance (tapped with mallets) & first child's voice:
recorded at the Bubble House October 2007
cover photo:
1959 anonymous found snapshot (courtesy Airform Archives)
United States·Original Year: 2007