In 2003, I crashed free from 17 years of navigating New York City's dense urbanity, and landed in Pinehurst, in California's Sequoia National Forest. My life was changed in every sense, and an urgent crisis of identity followed: what kind of a musician should I become? A wholly new perspective on sound and listening emerged from my new home. I learned to discern between voices of birds within species; I could identify the make of neighbors' trucks rumbling up the road; I finally became aware of my own tinnitus. Sounds became markers, sources of specific information for tracking, predicting, and contextual knowledge. No longer layered and mashed together, as city noise was, sounds in the country came mostly one at a time, to be studied, captured, and appreciated as much as their visual counterparts. Pinehurst, Now is an open window onto my world, where viewers can hear one sound at a time, interleaved by echoes from the now-distant city, which become quieter as each year passes. 

Pinehurst, Now (a silent video, aka earmagination) will be shown at soundpedro2025 chthonic, on-site on June 7, 2025 at Angel's Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, California, and online through November 2025.