to hear the things we cannot see

ABOUT

to hear the things we cannot see is a collaboration with Hub New Music, composer Nina C. Young, and poet Rosie Stockton. The piece features Stockton’s debut collection, Permenant Volta (Nightboat Books), a collection of love poems that explores queer identity in a capitalist society.

In creating the score for this piece, Young analyzed the spectrum and envelope of Stockton’s voice in recordings of the poet reading their work. Recordings filter through the quartet’s playing to unite spaces past and present, and to act as an additional instrument to Hub New Music’s quartet. Live electronic sounds are triggered using MaxMSP. Throughout the work Young plays with ideas of space - particularly in exploring the creation of aural architectures using the ensemble, voice, and embedded electronics.