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w2 recorded December 7, 2023

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“Refuge means a certain amount of quiet, a retreat from what frazzles and buzzes, from what sometimes feels in the mind like the continuous replay of the final minute of a tied Super Bowl game, bleachers sagging with spectators whooping and jeering about wins and losses, voices hoarse, the players’ one-point attention on flattening whatever come between them and the triumph of a square yard of pigskin flying over the goal line. On an ordinary day, the human ear is bombarded with sound - anything and everything: the whine of a mosquito, the neighbor’s lawn mower, the ratchety clock movement, seagulls, an old dog’s snoring, car engines, and the popping roll of tires on the pavement. Our minds, of course, automatically filter much of this hubbub. But at what cost? What happens to the filtered material? Cleaning the filter of my clothes dryer yields fuzzy bedding of dog hair, threads, shredded kleenex, and, once, a striking black-and-white feather, small and striped, cleaned and surely destined for more than the trash. I run fingers across the lint trap, gathering the clean down. Scraped and softened linen like tis was once used for dressing wounds - a buffer between raw wound and the barrage of bacteria. Too much buildup of lint, though, and the wound can’t breathe, the dryer will catch fire, your house will burn down. Does the human mind work the same way? Are there long screens we need to occasionally pull from our heads, run our fingers up, gathering into a pleated, linty accordion the excesses of noise we haven’t processed? Do we need occasionally the silence of refuge for the way it lets our minds breathe a little more easily?”
~ Barbara Hurd, Stirring the Mud, page 49

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released December 19, 2023

Walter Wright - IFMSynth [1-4], acoustic drum kit [1-4], tin cans [2], paint can lids [3], pot lids & aluminum pie plate [4]

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w2 Charlottesville, Virginia

Walter Wright is an interdisciplinary artist, his practice includes computer programming, electro-acoustic music, and video performance. His focus is on "improvisation as a way of being present in the world."

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