An Interview with Andrew Demirijian

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January 9th, 2012

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The kind they go and plant in the forest? Waiting for Bigfoot or something?

[Laughs] Yeah, it’s those kind of things that they plant in the Amazon and whatnot. They let them go for a month. So I got a bunch of those and I did a residency at the Grand Canyon in South Rim, and I set up these field recorders in 12 different elevations all over the Grand Canyon.

There’ll be a visual component, as well, but I’ve been focusing on the sound first. I was really interested in making these rhythmic juxtapositions between these elevations as a starting point for composition. It’s really beautiful. I think it will be interesting to lots of different groups of people for different reasons.

I’m thinking about using a really tiny monitor in the center of the room, a tiny, tiny monitor with a giant sound system. Like an inversion of the way that it’s usually presented; as a giant, vast image, with absolutely no sound attached to it. So I’m playing with that juxtaposition.

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Text interview by Marsha Vdovin and Ron MacLeod for Cycling ’74.