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trees cracking in the wind 04:22
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nothing but the wind 04:48
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a coyote appears 04:38
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geese and duck crossing 02:27
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whispering wind 03:30
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TVP 04:56
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TVP is an album of music and sound art pieces. The pieces are not a direct representation of the sounds of each track title but rather function to invoke an experience of small moments I have participated in while walking or running on the trail. Each track represents a sliver of events that have left an impact on my body and that have continued to permeate my dreams.

I conceived of this work as a way to challenge the frequently performed romanticization of nature. Rather than depict the trail as a system of paths in nature divorced from the city, I try to represent the path as a contaminated space of messy assemblages. The path is never clear nor the same, some days it is flooded, some days geese block the way. The path weaves past train track, under bridges; cars roar overhead or off in the distance. The city is never far away, it is always heard no matter how thick the forest might appear.

Throughout the sounds found in the album, I avoid direct allusions to the sound of the path. This work is created with the trail as speculative fabulation. It plays SF (Haraway 2016) with the complex web of life forms, situations and ideas of nature-cultures that entangle as the ‘Forest City’. It is as hopeful as much as it is critical of the idea of the ‘Forest City’.

This work is improvised in the vein of free improvisation. I consider this process a speculative free improvisation, wherein my improvisation contributes freely to the act of speculating about such a landscape.

Lastly, I have come to realize that the trail has shaped the assemblage that I refer to as me. The act of running its hills has built and broken down my body and shaped it. The trail has shaped me and I it, in more ways than I can account for. The messy assemblage which is my body has become an archive of the trail and the experiences I have had on it due to this shaping. These sounds are a translation and invocation of this archive of the body.

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released April 8, 2022

Jury Kobayashi-Mackay (Double Bass, Composer, Mixer)

Helen Abbot (Album art)

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Jury Tosh Kobayashi-Mackay Ontario

Jury Tosh Kobayashi-Mackay is an interdisciplinary artist, improviser and composer. His art focuses on the use of ‘free- materials’ as performative strategies. His work often incorporates sounds, bodies, environment (indoors and outdoors) and sonic responses to visual impetus. ... more

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