This piece is an exploration of what it means to travel.

The winds are placed around the audience at the four cardinal directions, and the percussion are placed at the four combinatorial directions. I aimed to create an atmosphere for the audience where the sounds are always traveling around them.

The dictated birdcalls that have come from my own field recordings are taken from all over the United States and abroad. I used the birdcalls as a way to reference each location I was at in a given time as a way to recall a particular memory. But since the birds are migratory and memory is often inaccurate, it’s not an exact recollection of that place. It’s rather a reference to possible locations that the bird could’ve existed in at that time of the year. The fact that this particular bird and I crossed paths in our travel is extraordinary, since the odds are usually stacked against us. I use our crossing, and by extension the recording of their calls, as a way of externalizing the beauty of random chance that exists in the world, and the sheer luck of being in the right place at the right time.