Temporal Blur by Justin Sorensen

This piece of music was comissioned by the designer Gloria Cortina to accompany a solo furniture show in New York at the Cristina Grajales Gallery in Tribeca . Below is my artist statement.

How can the body traverse the infinite particles of the Universe? How might sound distort when our perception of time expands? If our ears could occupy a sliver of space within this process, what new perceptions might we become aware of?

As we traverse space our bodies are endlessly colliding with histories that exist on vastly different scales of perception. To be in a space, is to be in infinite spaces at the same moment. This realization and desire to explore conceptually is what drew me into the work of Gloria Cortina. For as long as I can remember I have been curious about the invisible. The cracks, fissures, and pockets of space and time found in the everyday provide an environment of adventure, exploration, and possibility.

The soundscape you will hear is a glimpse of my mind into the invisible pockets that occupy a universe of particles. Constructed in three movements, I have drawn inspiration from the materiality of the show including black onyx, rose quartz, and white onyx. After having sat with these materials for extended periods, listening deeply, I orchestrated a score that might alter one’s experience when present with these materials. Black onyx is explored through the concepts of magnetism, communication and balance, while rose quartz can be heard as healing and a connection to the throat and heart chakra and white onyx voiced through focus, meditation and deeper states of clarity. To achieve this I sampled sounds from the Cortina Studio in Mexico City, extracting unique moments during production, and generating instrument patches that could then be played. The resulting sound design is entirely unique to process, fabrication and interpretation.

Let the sound wash over and release your body from a linear reality and explore the materiality of the show from an alternate perspective where boundaries can be blurred and forgotten. I challenge you to slow your movements, feel for what is in between the ubiquitous, and find an expanded dimension of self awareness.