ABSTRACT
In terms of questions about artistry, this was art for social justice, a longstanding tradition in scholarship, a possibility supported both by W. E. B. Dubois and John Dewey for example. Practically, the sound files were adjusted only in their collection, overlapping playback, panned a bit left and right so audience members could better discern one recording from another, and volume so that they were audible at generally the same level. All of the sound effects from the baritone saxophone in this recording are analog, the result of combinations of traditional and extended techniques that allow for expressions as multiphonics, the simultaneous sounding of multiple notes in an overtone series, and altissimo register playing, notes in and out of a tempered scale played beyond the keyed ranges of a wind instrument. Holding a big vibrating metal piece of sound production does something in ways that are phenomenologically significant to this project.
