Something is Coming

2019
Performance

Nathan Young, Kite

SOMETHING IS COMING

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2019 | 9:30 PM | NATIONAL MUSIC CENTRE

Something is Coming is a site specific sound performance which listens into the electrical grid. utilizing ground loop noise, field recordings, digital processing, and analog manipulation, Kite and Young propose a way to listen through the grid to the source. This form of listening is not a metaphor, but a way to access and reimagine power systems. This mode of listening is a relin­quishing of belief. To listen to the grid and hear the physical source of power is to not mistake the map for the land itself. This form of listening provides an opportunity to hear and think beyond colonial constraints of cartography and large-scale exploita­tions of natural resources.

Commissioned by the Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival.