Unstable Beaches by Usse

UNSTABLE BEACHES is a non-commercially available single edition triple-cassette release.

Jud Crandall - field recording

Made by Usse, Winter 2018-19.
Recorded Summer 2017.
Unmastered audio recording.

Hear UNSTABLE BEACHES on our listening station at the Saint John Arts Centre, as part of Third Space ARC's exhibition 'haunt', curated by Christiana Myers, and up from from January 11 through March 9, 2019.

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UNSTABLE BEACHES consists of audio recorded inside the rail yard on the southern shore of Courtenay Bay, processed to re-imagine the omnipresent resonant sound heard outside that space overnight.

A bay's headlands and beaches represent continuous states of change and negotiation in time and space. While their natural tendency is to maintain equilibrium through movement of sediment by river and tidal waters, spurious interruptions and disruptions to that environment serve to introduce instability and uncertainty into that location's multiple histories and possible futures.

In this continuing moment of conflict concerning sovereignty over land and water, UNSTABLE BEACHES' release today is dedicated to all who are struggling against the capitalist and colonial forces threatening our shared natural environment.

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