Murder Story

As I was making my recordings and playing them back later, I was surprised to see that they had undertones of what I considered to be a sort of dark, almost murderous plot. There were the “shots” and then there was the digging noise. That noise to me, sounded like a body being buried in some sort of remote spot. It surprised me as I was digging that it felt/sounded sort morbid. As I was listening to it later it still had that sort of sinister connotation. Then the writing on the tube, to me, was like a last message on the top of a coffin. The fence sounds would the fighting to get out alive; the ruffling leaves would be the people (the buriers) walking away. Then the volleyball game recorded through the can could be a the way it would sound if heard from underground. I wasn't necessarily thinking this when I came up with the ideas for what to record, but it was the experience of doing it that transformed the situation and took me to another place. It was interesting because I don't really think of myself as wanting to make work about darkness or death, and probably wouldn't with intention. But unintentionally it is what seemed to come out of my recordings and what the sounds and the actions seemed to mean/represent. But honestly, it probably doesn't even sound like that.