Hold the Portal Open program

Hold the Portal Open program

In his project "Hold the Portal Open" - part of PPL's Adaptive Practices series in Spring 2020 - Micah Salkind created a series of audio recordings and published them on Soundcloud. This is a recording of the culiminating event held on Zoom in which participants met together to discuss the works with Salkind. In his artist statement, Salkind noted, "Hold The Portal Open is an experiment in narrative mixing, a technique wherein disco and house DJs use the lyrical content of songs to tell a story that complements affective shifts supported by music. Lyrics augment the ways that key, tempo, energy level, and other musical factors shift the ways we think, feel, and understand a sonic experience over time. Each day for six days I will create a new improvised mix of approximately 45-minutes with a title and a short prompt. Audiences are invited to stream or download each mix from SoundCloud and listen to it on a walk while meditating on the sounds, lyrics, title, and prompt. They can keep their own private notes about the experiences or not, but they are invited to share what they notice publicly as a comment on each mix or in a culminating conversation on April 27th.

Micah Salkind

4/27/2020

English

Providence, RI

Providence Public Library

Providence Public Library