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Landscape with Trees
35mm slides, projection lens, flashlight, cassette tape, electric guitar, two EBows, and voice

a performance combining 35mm slides with images of fallen trees photographed on the coastline of the Olympic Peninsula projected by hand with a flashlight and projection lens; a field recording made at a clearcut forest in Clark County, Washington from my cassette tape fur trading; and a realization of my score "You can't be killers all your life performed by reading its printed list of trees found in the forests of the Western United States and playing a two-note chord depicting a germinating seed on a restrung electric guitar with up to two EBows at a time

Landscape With Trees by Robert Blatt
image from Konzert an der Stolzestrasse in a performance with Stefan Thut and Manfred Werder, Zürich, Switzerland, December 2023 (in this performance the cassette tape was played back from a different location and is not shown in the photograph)