As usual, I helplessly unfolded into an optimist after few cups of organic coffee and fantasized in sublime ignorance that my out-of-century desktop computer could, beyond any reasonable doubt, successfully render a one-hour long generative audiovisual project in lossless avi format in After Effect CS3. I held my breath. I clicked render. I watched my computer superhero-ing through one hundred hours before sourly giving it up like an adorable crybaby.

The audio track used in Stream was field-recorded during my lovely stay at Millay Colony for the Arts, sharing the intimate space for a month with poet Bruce Snider, painter Kirsten Stolle and Giovanna Cecchetti, and interdisciplinary artist Sujin Lee. The stream was not too far away from a hidden trail behind the main building of the colony. I captured the sound during a gorgeous sunny morning after a oh-way-too-long week of eccentric pouring rain and giant thunders. The nakedly unedited audio track reminds me the raw and uncooked beauty.

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Millay Colony for the Arts