home improvements

a piece for bass recorder, electronics and spoken word

this is a piece for recorder and electronics, with various domestic foley sounds and a collection of words inspired by ‘The Poetics of Space’ by Gaston Bachelard.

Bass Recorder - Olivia Petryszak (THANK YOU)

My favourite quote from the book.

“Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done: we are going to build a house. This dream house may be merely a dream of ownership, the embodiment of everything that is considered convenient, comfortable, healthy, sound, desirable, by other people. It must therefore satisfy both pride and reason, two irreconcilable terms.”

words

cigarettes and solipsism

pottery and place

hardbacks and hedonism

am assortment beauty products and perseverance

Mirrors and memory

deck chairs and chance

the music of doris day and dreaming

oversized slippers and safety

futons and fervor

the right side of the bed and bliss

place matts and preference

4k and displays of affection

rice cakes and restraint

fm radio and restlessness

branded sauces and hierarchy

16 sunflowers and schmaltz

stone-look linoleum and love

6pm and perspective

coat hangers and closure

wedding videos and voyerism

alliterative quotes of affirmation and age

video