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Van Abbemuseum Meditation

by Jayve John Montgomery Jr.

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Recorded October 1, 2008 across the pond on the grounds of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

I was in the Netherlands as the youngest member of Theaster Gates' Black Monks of Mississippi, performing in their HEARTLAND show of Contemporary Art from the Midwest. At dusk of the first evening I set off on to the museum grounds to attend to my practice of sonic asceticism. I wanted to hear what sounding off of the exterior walls of the oldest museum of modern art in Europe felt like; and though I had lived in Berlin for 5 years as a child, I had not played saxophone outside of the Untied States of Americain't as yet.

The original meditation lasted about an hour starting at 5:30pm. Here I present this moment as 16 different parts, simply editing out the most annoying wind noise (atmospheric wind, all my annoying noise is present), thereby making this field recording event navigable. Only a slight low end roll-off and normalization have been applied, providing a rich source to be user-equalized to one's needs.

This would be the most I would play the saxophone that trip. As Theaster Gates said later on November 20, 2008 at the Chicago Cultural Center- the Dutch musicians (we partnered with) had more access to my cultural capital than I did as a child. Colonization is lasting. Stay tuned for the Eindhoven Soundscape...

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released October 1, 2008

Photo of Jayve John Montgomery Jr. with tenor saxophone on the grounds of the Van Abbemuseum by Stephanie Smith, Smart Museum.

Photo originally appears in HEARTLAND ISBN: 978-0-935573-47-3, the more-than-art-catalogue art catalogue for the eponymous joint show between Smart Museum, Chicago and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

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