WE ARE CHARTING A NEW PROJECT
WITH COMPOSER AND PIANIST ANTHONY CARDELLA

A collaborative exploration of indeterminacy through the work of composers, visual artists, writers, photographers, sound practitioners, and other observers.

This past weekend we began a rough draft.

Not of the compositions themselves, but of the conditions from which they may emerge.

Over the coming months we will observe, record, reflect, and experiment before revealing the project in January.

INFINITE

A Project in Indeterminacy

For now,

we are listening.

We are observing, researching, recording, and experiencing Los Angeles and the infinite ways it reveals itself.

Through sound.
Through light.
Through weather.
Through movement.
Through time.
Through chance.

Through the sensorial, the auditory, the visual, and the experiential.

These field notes will become the material from which multiple compositions, artworks, writings, and experiments may emerge through methods of indeterminacy.

Field Notes Begin
September 2026

January 2027

The experiments begin.

I CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT WE ARE NO DIFFERENT FROM, FOR EXAMPLE, THE ICE AGE - A POSSIBLE CATASTROPHE. BUT THEN I THOUGHT WE MIGHT INVENT SOMETHING TO PREVENT THAT. THAT WE CAN THINK OURSELVES AND NATURE INTO ANOTHER DIRECTION. WHEN 1 THOUGHT THAT, I THOUGHT: WE CAN IMAGINE ANYTHING AND BELIEVE ANYTHING, AND WE HAVE IMAGINED AND BELIEVED SO MANY THINGS THAT HAVE SHAPED OUR REALITY. OUR ENTIRE REALITY MAY BE A SLOWLY FORMED AGREEMENT. WE HAVE A CERTAIN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW WE ARE AND WHAT WE ARE, BUT THAT CAN CHANGE, BECAUSE IN FACT WE HAVE INVENTED EVERYTHING OURSELVES. AND PERHAPS ONE DAY IT WILL BE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT - SOMETHING WE CANNOT EVEN IMAGINE YET.

AND THEN I THINK... MAYBE IT IS ALL A DREAM, A THOUGHT.

SO 1 THOUGHT ABOUT ALL FORMS OF LANDSCAPE - FOR EXAMPLE, THE LANDSCAPE OF RELATIONSHIPS - AND HOW RELATIONSHIPS INFLUENCE YOUR INNER LANDSCAPE, AND YOUR BIOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE, YOUR PHYSICAL LANDSCAPE. LANDSCAPES OF RELATIONSHIPS INSIDE CELLS.

AND I WROTE THIS ABOUT YOU:

MAMA IS LANDSCAPE. HER ARMS AND LEGS, AND HANDS THAT DO EVERYTHING - COOKING, DRIVING, PUTTING THE LAUNDRY IN THE MACHINE, TYPING ON THE TYPEWRITER, HOLDING THE PHONE, WRITING AN APPOINTMENT IN HER PLANNER.

HER PLANNER IS LANDSCAPE. HER CAR, THE DRIVEWAY, OUR HOUSE, THE KITCHEN, THE VIEW OVER THE TREES, THE END OF THE STREET.

• ester spitz

Devonshere Manuscript (1540- 1560)

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mary Shelton

1 A wel I hawe ut other lost '

2 not as my nowen I do protest

3 bot wan I hawe got that hawe mest

4 I shal regoys among the rest

ARCHIVE noTes & glosses EDITED BY Raymond SIEmens -

A Letter in maRY Shelton's hand. The speaKer expresses a hope to regain what he or she has lost and to accept the out come-" A wel I hawe at other lost"

This comes from the scholarly edition of the Devonshire Manuscript, one of the most important Tudor poetry manuscripts, edited by Raymond Siemens and collaborators at the Devonshire Manuscript project. The "Notes & Glosses" section is the editor's commentary explaining individual poems and their historical context.