Movementos:
1. Highway 96 (0:00)
2. Paranoia Knows No Language (3:00)
3. 8 Hours to Chicago (4:20)
4. Vipassana (5:45)
5. Home is Where You're Sittin (7:15)
Dealing with themes of longing, divorce, acceptance, and healing, NAUVOO is a soundscape mixtape of music and field recordings composed after leaving a house I failed to make home. This was a year I co-purchased and cohabitated a creepy house on an acre of creepy land off the Mississippi River. It uses bassoon, synthesis, affected guitar, and treated vocals.
One year after leaving, and two weeks upon forfeiting the deed, the house was destroyed in a tornado.
The bassoon carries the ideé fixe, and represents my internal anxiety and pain during this time. Through the fits of fury, she remains to find solace, eventually leaving room for the voice of her "essential self". She leaves the house, the land, the lover. In leaving, she can attempt healing.
The final movement is a love letter to anyone who has ever wondered if they would be able to escape a pattern of abuse. The poem recited is one of many I've written to digest this experience.
