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micro / cosmo / logic   Helen Shewolfe Tseng
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Field Sonata
Originally published in Taper #14: Sonnets

The word “sonnet,” deriving from “little song” or “little sound,” is etymologically linked to the word “sonata,” a musical composition structured in movements. This piece collects and disperses little songs and sounds as a spatial onomatopoeic sonata against a simulation of changing light and sky, a score for the ambient soundscapes naturally occurring on a particular stretch of wild land I know and love. Movements of movement, the ecological nested within the planetary. The duration of the piece, four minutes and thirty-three seconds, is an homage to John Cage’s 4’33”, and an invitation for the viewer to bring awareness to your own ambient soundscapes as you watch the poem unfold.