The soundtrack from a
meditative street performance from 1969, part of an event organized
by John Perreault. I first walked slowly around the outer periphery
of a block in lower Manhattan for two hours, recording whatever
occurred, one week before the performance. Then during the
performance a week later, I walked quickly around the inner
periphery of the block for one hour, playing back what I'd recorded
at twice the speed, "thus compressing time and space," as
I explained to one of many individuals I encountered in the course
of doing the piece. The recording contains conversations with
artists Richard Van Buren and Ed Ruda, among others, and a more
extended conversation with Vito Acconci. This last conversation
contains interpersonal overtones I was completely unaware of at the
time. There are extended segments of street noise: cars, people
shouting, vendors hawking their wares, passing conversations, etc.