This piece borrows its name from the label of a mix tape found in a box of old cassettes; a mix tape Annika's father made for her mother the year they started dating. It's been 32 years since then, and the tape itself split in half; the only sound that plays now is a repetitive clicking of the cassette winding over itself.
The composition follows this romantic narrative, exploring how we give and receive sound, and how sound exists within multiple dimensions: sonically, physically, emotionally. Can we trace sound as something that can be passed on, like a physical heirloom might be? Can memories of sounds be as valid as sounds that we can physically access in the present? Do playback devices still hold meaning after they can no longer be played?
credits
from SONGS FOR LIZ JULY 1985,
released December 22, 2017
Voice: Elizabeth Goddard, Annika Moses, Eric Moses
Sampled cassettes: 'Dance Me To The End of Love' Leonard Cohen, 'Amelia' Joni Mitchell
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