Salvage Rhythms

“On the one hand I am full of admiration for the people who figured out how to survive despite the destruction of their forest. On the other hand, I can’t help but worry when the scrap metal will run out, and whether there will be enough other stuff in the ruins to make continuing survival possible. And while not all of us enact such a literal figuration of living in ruins, we mostly do have to work within our disorientation and distress to negotiate life in human-damaged environments. We follow salvage rhythms...by “rhythms” I mean forms of temporal coordination.”

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, 'The Mushroom at the End of the World.'

'Salvage Rhythms' is “a riot” of chapters, “like the flushes of mushrooms that come up after rain." Field recordings were made in Boorloo, Brooklyn NYC and Dunsborough from 2018 to 2020. They were then sampled for a series of improvisations recorded in our shared living space.