FundamentallySound Blog

I am performing on November 3rd, the day after the elections, at Rickshaw Stop in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. I've been thinking a lot about what to do, depending on who wins the presidential race. I mean, come on, if Bush wins, my performance of heady sound-art-music is going to seem about as relevant as a dinner party on the Titanic after it had begun to sink.

I've been thinking of preparing two pieces: the first is for Bush winning. It will function as ritualistic mourning, made of the vocal sounds of Americans in San Francisco speaking now about their lives in a second Bush term, how many more will move abroad, how many will stay, how their lives will change. I can start recording them this weekend and build a collection of their voices and thoughts over the next 11 days.

If Kerry wins, I am thinking of presenting a preview performance of Seconds Of Salvation, the larger work I will premiere at the Lab on December 9. But, really, the race seems completely unpredictable, it is very possible Bush will be president again, as unimaginable as it seems.