7 august 2024. excerpts from a solo set of field recordings, SP-404 sampler, flute, and RC-202 loop station performed by trē seguritan abalos at The Big Idea Bookstore in Pittsburgh, PA.
Field recordings (all collected by trē except for samples of Motaz Azaiza and Dalal Abu Amneh):
0:00 - bells heard in a forest in Hakone, Japan - temple chimes at Sensō-ji, Tokyo - water in Pangasinan, Philippines near a woman singing under her breath - trē reading from an unsent letter: "did you know... that to escape our skin, I become a sound?" - trē's little cousin talking to herself in Tagalog in a cemetery / the cousin's mom calling her - train from Narita airport to Tokyo
3:00 - stuck in Manila traffic, listening to Tagalog hip hop - trē saying, "... life, here? ... welcoming"
6:00 - sample of Gazan journalist Motaz Azaiza singing - voices of food vendors on a bus to Baguio, Philippines - voices at izakaya in Odawara, Japan - train from Narita to Tokyo - trē improvising on her parents' piano in San Jose, CA - trē's little cousin speaking, birds singing around her
10:10 - flute loop - voices of protesters in Pittsburgh
11:20 - sample of Dalal Abu Amneh singing a Palestinian song about the olive harvest - television & voices at an izakaya in Odawara, Japan
13:45 - trē improvising on her parents' piano in San Jose, CA - trē recounting a memory with family - same samples as opening
