(2021)
Sound Installation
Sound, music composition, built materials
Decrescendo / Crescendo is a 40-foot-long corridor with a 7-foot opening on both sides slowly narrowing toward the center. As a listener walks toward a small gap in the center of the corridor, a field recording of the grounds of a detention center reproduces a contradictory soundscape of isolation and reduced outdoor freedom. Reflecting on the dilemma of whether justice is served through incarceration, the sound installation expresses this predicament in an architectural form, reflecting this confining space, finding points of resolution but also echoing where we, as a society, have stalled, unsure of how to solve issues of punishment, rehabilitation, and justice.
