https://jayvemontgomery.com ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ Sun, 28 Jan 2024 22:55:45 +0000 https://jayvemontgomery.com en https://jayvemontgomery.com/Main Sun, 31 Oct 2021 17:13:09 +0000 ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ https://jayvemontgomery.com/Main jayve montgomery ©️ With the ever increasing ability to be anywhere and everywhere else, now remains an elusive destination. Reconciling the past with the future, JayVe Montgomery’s work is time traveling to the pre(-)sent, the gift of now. His work reveals his adherence to improvisation and chance as a way to explore evolutionary learning, dreams, democratic polylogue and unintended subjective meaning through randomized being. epigenetic tendency towards (to waves) exploring being relative to someone who has listened to, been, the sounds at the bottom of a slave ship and rewarded in this afterlife by being purchased for animal husbandry and other common tasks of human livestock... ︎ ︎ https://jayvemontgomery.com/Lake-Black-Town Sun, 28 Jan 2024 22:55:45 +0000 ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️ https://jayvemontgomery.com/Lake-Black-Town Lake Black Town is a compostional research project funded by a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, awarded to JayVe Montgomery along with but not limited to collaborators Li Harris, and Ben LaMar Gay. We will deeply listen to the liminal spaces and stories surrounding “drowned towns”. By using creative field recording techniques to listen to the water, soil, flora and fauna of recreation, racism, and hydroelectric progress built atop flooded American dreams we will construct a modular composition of soundscape storytelling. This is a practice of the modalities of Deep Listening and Great Black Music. This is the sound of remembering. We will present the work in progress to communities near Kentucky Lake, KY; Lake Marion, SC; Lake Norman, Lake James, Belews Lake, NC; Lake Martin, AL; and Lake Lanier, GA when welcomed to do so. Ultimately Nashville and Chicago will see larger multichannel performances of the work and a studio recording.Thank you for your ears.&nbsp; Birmingham, KYBetween the Rivers is the name of the region in which Birmingham, Kentucky existed as the most significant town to be drowned by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the creation of Kentucky Lake, Lake Barkeley and Kentucky Dam for hydroelectric “progress” and a yet to arrive&nbsp; time of mass recreation for Americans.&nbsp; While Birmingham was nearly between the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, it also sat between aspirations of being an iron town like its namesake in Enlgand, and being an American town rife of the racism of its Alabaman namsake. It is called the most significant town to be drowned in the effort because it had a population larger than the county seat and was a place where both African Americans and whites found work in the iron and timber industries. March 08, 1908, brought Birmingham a flood of 150 “night riders” led by Dr. Emilus Champion. The organized mob of masked marauders cut telephone lines, shot up African American homes and dragged several prominent African Americans out of their homes and to the banks of the Tennessee River where they were whipped with ox whips and threatened to flee or be killed. John Scruggs and his granddaughter died from gunshot wounds. There were helpful whites, but they did not outnumber the racist mob who would dispossess African Americans of 60 acres, 21 city lots and life itself . More on the raid can be found here. Below you’ll find images from my February 26 visit. I recorded the air in binaural fashion. Immediately my expectations of the project changed. How much of today’s recreational soundscape will I allow the piece to have? What does it say to edit it out? What is the sound of emptiness?&nbsp; I also recorded with the geophone for the first time and devised a method to get information from deeper in the earth than I had first thought possible and that is by sticking a grandfather clock tine rod into the ground and using the geophone magnet to pick up the vibrations as seen below. A return visit is needed to interact with foliage-triggered synthesizer accompaniment and myself/collaborators. How much of my sound will be in the field recordings? The youtube video below is a compilation document of some of the sounds gathered at the site as well as an overlay of the Historical Topgraphical Map Explorer found at livingatlas.arcgis.com.&nbsp; The piece in progress will be titled “Between The Rivers”. &nbsp; <img width="6608" height="8108" width_o="6608" height_o="8108" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7648a2b1c191d04b2329f6ae6f000d9481c1a840cfd86b883789c3985eb5c65c/KY_Birmingham_803335_1936_24000_geo_sm.jpg" data-mid="206903424" border="0" alt="Birmingham, Kentucky 1936 U.S. Geological Survey map" data-caption="Birmingham, Kentucky 1936 U.S. Geological Survey map" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7648a2b1c191d04b2329f6ae6f000d9481c1a840cfd86b883789c3985eb5c65c/KY_Birmingham_803335_1936_24000_geo_sm.jpg" /> <img width="750" height="671" width_o="750" height_o="671" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b22ed0972ce917a64fcc97a51b6902aa11200ce8d7ec4f4a9a6444f77d57875/kylake_birminghampoint.jpg" data-mid="206903240" border="0" alt="Google Map showing Birmingham Point and Birmingham Cemetery" data-caption="Google Map showing Birmingham Point and Birmingham Cemetery" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/7b22ed0972ce917a64fcc97a51b6902aa11200ce8d7ec4f4a9a6444f77d57875/kylake_birminghampoint.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4814a6e70fd9cf953204c76d09efd5330dd8f1fae7a6f8b3551e7a0aafff7362/kylake_militarymap1863.jpg" data-mid="206903417" border="0" alt="1863 Military Map of Between the Rivers from visitor center" data-caption="1863 Military Map of Between the Rivers from visitor center" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4814a6e70fd9cf953204c76d09efd5330dd8f1fae7a6f8b3551e7a0aafff7362/kylake_militarymap1863.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" 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