George Crotty & Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram 2022
Playing Fallen Leaves (on S,CUAN)
16,5 minutes video with soundscape
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Recorded on S,ĆUÁN (Mount Tuam on Salt Spring Island Canada) on 2022 February 13, with the third voice Jasmin Grewal, the single recording was mixed into two tracks by George and Brent as a two channel soundscape (with each channel separated by five to ten metres).
To make the work more widely available, the two tracks were mixed by George in November 2022 and combined by Brent with video footage of the same leaves from islands aroud the Salish Sea of ĆEṈAL̵Ć [SENĆOŦEN], ĆEṈAL̵Ć [SENĆOŦEN], p’hwulhp [HUL’Q’UMI’NUM’], Garry oak, Quercus garryana, the most widespread of the native West Coast oaks occurring from the northern Salish Sea in Canada to the mountains of north-western Mexico.
Funding for Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram’s work on this project was from the Canada Council for the Arts and the First People’s Cultural Council a corporation of the Province of British Columbia.