In 2019 I was invited to do a sound intervention at an Art show based in works by Christina Ertl-Shirley and Paul Lubitz made with Poplar wood.
I remembered that in my parents house in Argentina one Poplar tree was taken down by a Tornado while I was there visiting my family.
My father had placed several Poplar trees as a wall in front of the main window of the living room where him and my mother spend the greatest part of their time, as a way to cool down the temperature of the room. They had to do it as an answer to the growing temperature due to global warming. To place Poplar trees doing this, is a usual practise in Patagonia, where they protect country houses from the wind.
The fall of the tree was kind, barely touching the wall of the house, but expressed a new development of the warmth growing that affects our planet, The zone where my parents live had never been a Tornado zone till then, and these storms, that now happen over there usually at a same period of the year, show one more aspect of the growing danger in which nature has been placed for it´s own life, including the humans one.
The piece i made, based in my own photos, field recordings by Christina Ertl Shirley, an interview to my father, sine tones, 4 melodies played with Bass clarinet, and mini speakers in feedback, became a humble documentation on how global warming and lack of care on nature affects our lives not only as an hypothetical threat in the future. But also, and mainly, of the pass of a tree, a single living creature, through our lives.
credits
from A Poplar Story,
released December 23, 2020
Lucio Capece: Composition, edition, bass clarinet, sine tones, mini speakers in feedback, voice, photos.
Aldo Capece: Voice
Field recordings by Christina Ertl-Shirley.
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