1999
An Absence of Time
The space is meant to be traversed. The office building is a hub of activity, a place where workers pass through on the way to and from their offices, a space where the public passes through on the way to conducting their business of the day. Each person's entrance and exit will, of course, be temporally marked, whether it is a morning, an afternoon or just five minutes. What strikes one about the sound work in the corridor, however, is its timelessness. It has no past, no present, no future. It cannot be measured as "music". It is both formless and seamless. The more we try to measure it, the more elusive it seems.
When one ascends to the mezzanine, the sounds seem more present. As we move along the corridor, as we did below, we become acclimated to the differences in tone and color. Once again, it is our passage through the space which activates the sound for us.