The Secret Spot
As a child, my dad would take me to a particular spot in a nearby office park. In that spot, between a corporate sculpture and a concrete semicircle could be found one of the best echoes around. We called it the “the secret spot”. Later in life, when working on an interpretation of Alvin Lucier’s Quasimoto, which involves the re-amplification of sets of sounds in a collaborative round of different locations, I returned to that site to make use of its famed echoes. That would spur me on to make additional use of corporate sculptures, going around exciting them with mallets, brushes, and various implements, as well as reamplifying sounds through them, and gathering impulse responses. What came out of all that work was this piece, “The Secret Spot”.