For Megaphone, My Mouth, and Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall, 2011
The programs notes from the original performance read:
As a matter of convenience, the voice is often represented as a closed system of resonators through which a signal is articulated. A megaphone is designed to amplify the signal of the voice to an unspecified addressee-- that is, to the outside world, the characteristics of which are normally irrelevant to the operation of the device. Yet each space constituting the outside, be it a public square or a concert hall, is, like the voice, a unique site of resonance determined by its own material configuration. The work might then be considered a trace of the interaction between sites of resonance, a strained attempt to open the mouth to include its outside, an attempt to momentarily resist the inevitable reflex of closure. The final outline of the work is suggested along the transitions between states of stability or, more exactly, at the points of rupture between sounding bodies.
