“Take a walk at night. Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears.”

—Pauline Oliveros

a note about this program

From its roots, the word correspondence means “together we answer;“ it requires both a call and a response. In 1971, James Tenney composed Swell Piece No.2 on a postcard for Pauline Oliveros. She responded in 2006, the year of his death, with Blue Heron: In Memory of James Tenney. In this performance video, Katie Eikam and James Ilgenfritz give their musical responses to these two works from within a light installation that is also performing the compositions. For our Special Delivery subscribers, the art print postcard, hot pink palms by Adee Roberson, features people in pairs silhouetted against palm trees.