{"id":32,"date":"2024-03-14T19:53:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T19:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deanpowell.local\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2024-05-10T14:58:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T14:58:18","slug":"a-line-disappeared-by-walking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/deanpowell.local\/a-line-disappeared-by-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"A line disappeared by walking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height: 228px; width: 100%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/audio.com\/embed\/audio\/1796142920541156?theme=image\"\n    style=\"display:block; border-radius: 6px; border: none; height: 204px; width: 100%;\"><\/iframe><a href='https:\/\/audio.com\/deanjohnpowell' style=\"text-align: center; display: block; color: #A4ABB6; font-size: 12px; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis;\">@deanjohnpowell<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mid-side recording (1 hour, 4 minutes)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This work traces the presence of footsteps throughout an hour long walking meditation. By positioning a mid-side microphone at ground level in the centre of the walking path, the physical line of the path becomes rendered spatially into sound, allowing us to discern it in our sonic imagination as we perceive each step back and forth. Starting off at a regular pace, the walk gradually slows down as the meditation progresses, resulting in a gentle disintegration of the walker\u2019s sonic footprint. In an inversion of Richard Long\u2019s (1967) piece \u2018A Line Made by Walking\u2019 which emphasised the tangible impact of the artist\u2019s physical presence, \u2018A line disappeared by walking\u2019 instead draws the listener into the experiential dissolution of the walker\u2019s sonic existence, shifting the focus of temporal attention from the isolated sound of each footstep into the durational unfolding of time as continuous, unbroken and indivisible. The setting where this process unfolds is the forest, an environment \u2018full of enigmas and paradoxes\u2019 (Harrison, 2009, p. X), with a long history as a place of seclusion in which \u2018to engage in psychological introspection\u2019 (Ibid. p. 93). Robert Harrison tells us that in the Western tradition \u2018the forest appears as a place where the logic of distinction goes astray. Or where our subjective categories are confounded\u2019. During such perspectival shifts afforded by the forest environment, \u2018latent dimensions of time and consciousness\u2019 (Ibid., p. X) are revealed to us. This work hopes to spark a sense of curiosity about undertaking such practices by pointing towards a unification between hearer and heard, blurring the boundary between internal and external worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b10eeb2931ba7dce175abffaaf3a0ef8\" style=\"color:#a3826f;font-size:0.7rem\"><strong>References:<\/strong><br>Harrison, R.P. (2009) Forests: The Shadow of Civilization. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr.<br>Long. R. (1967)\u00a0<em>A Line Made by Walking<\/em>\u00a0[Photograph]. Tate, London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@deanjohnpowell Mid-side recording (1 hour, 4 minutes) This work traces the presence of footsteps throughout an hour long walking meditation. By positioning a mid-side microphone at ground level in the centre of the walking path, the physical line of the path becomes rendered spatially into sound, allowing us to discern it in our sonic imagination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/deanpowell.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/deanpowell.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/deanpowell.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deanpowell.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deanpowell.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/deanpowell.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"http:\/\/deanpowell.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deanpowell.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/deanpowell.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}