A Post-Natural Pastorale (in progress)
w/ Sue Huang

New York City’s Freshkills is an engineered landscape—once the largest municipal dump in the world, it will soon be a public park. But as an environment formed by glacial recessions at the end of the ice age, then re-shaped by waste disposal during the industrial age, it is also a landmark that will outlast civilization.

Data-derived musical scores performed by double bassist Robert Black interpret layers of time—from the thousand-year decay of consumer plastics to the gathering of clouds overhead—to meditate on a temporal politics beyond humans.

Double bass: Robert Black. Art direction and production: Sue Huang. Composition and audio: Brian House. Audio mastering: Jon Cohrs. Video processing: Alex Dupuis. Curation and logistics: Mariel Villeré. Cinematography and color: Paul Shin. Assistant Production: David Feinberg. Thanks: New York City Department of Sanitation, Nancy Nowacek, Robert Black.