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Documentation from an audio performance/installation at Anderson Ranch in August of 2009. The work was created as part of a workshop with artist Andrea Polli titled "Sound, Space and the Environment". Performance and installation support from Salvatore D'Angio. Special thanks to Mariana Vieira for installation support.

(dis)Placed, is an experimental audio performance work created at Anderson Ranch in Aspen, Colorado, during a summer workshop with artist Andrea Polli. The work explores the idea of how a sense of place is created using sensory mapping techniques and how these maps can be disrupted by introducing displaced environmental cues into the perceptual feedback system.

A wireless microphone captures the sound of a small creek and a performer located creekside, transmitting the audio signal to the bustling lunchtime locale on the ranch's grounds. This signal is lightly processed and sent on to a highly directional "audio spotlight" and reflected off of one of the nearby buildings to further de-localize the origins of the signal.

This reflected sound of the running water of the creek is beamed to a particular spot in the pathway of ranch attendees on their way to and from the lunchroom.

The displaced sound is experienced as emanating from an unlikely position on the roof of the adjacent building drawing into question the predictable nature of our surroundings, our perceptions, and the meanings that we create from those phenomenal signals.