Days Grow Long

R. Winchester
from the CT Collective album: ReUse
http://www.ct-collective.com/index.cfm?page=music&albumid=41

Re·use (r-yz) tr.v. re·used, re·us·ing, re·us·es. To use again, especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing. [TheFreeDictionary.com]

February 21, 2009
recorded on Valentine's Day 2009

It's remarkable how much of our information still comes to us on dead trees... This piece examines ReUse, the reuse of sound and the sound of paper being prepared for reuse.  All sounds are from recordings that would usually be erased - musicians from the band Lewis & Clark performing a sound check and an automated message that was accidentally captured on voicemail.  Tearing paper is what you hear when you process newspapers for reuse as confetti or papier rmâché.  These recordings were made on Valentine's Day 2009 and reused and assembled during the following week as I am starting to pull out of my winter slump.  Although the days get longer they continue to pass.  Time is never reused.