ICMC BOSTON 2025
Online Listening Room
Curiosity, Play, Innovation - A 50th Anniversary Celebration of Creativity in Music, Science, and Technology
June 8-14, 2025
ICMC BOSTON 2025: Online Listening Room #5
ID#: 549
Chatter of Leaves (2024) ; 4:44
by Clayton Davidson
Independent Artist
‘Recordé haber leído que el mejor lugar para ocultar una hoja es un bosque.’
[I remember having read that the best place to hide a leaf is a forest.]
– “El libro de arena”, Jorge Luis Borges
At the end of the Borges short story “El libro de arena” (The Book of Sand), the narrator intentionally loses the eponymous book among 900,000 others in the National Library. “Chatter of Leaves” came from imagining this book with infinite pages there in the library, loose at night to exercise it’s boundless energy. Focusing in on the prosaic details of your surroundings is a way in which the most innocuous things can be transformed and seen anew. This piece emphasizes these themes of immersion and expansion by being based entirely on sounds of paper – the epitome of a flat, one-dimensional, mundane medium – but which then continues to expand into something else, encompassing far more within the experience of it.
Clayton Davidson
Clayton Simmons Davidson is a composer and guitarist whose current work is engaged with frames, gesture, timbre, tightly-integrated forms, polysemy and transcontextuality. He holds a B.M. in Music Composition from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and a M.A. in Music Composition from the University of North Texas. His music has received performances at events including the Sonorities Festival, Cervantes Electroacustico, New York International Fringe Festival, Risonanze Festival, and Electric LaTex Festival. His current compositional language draws from sources including spectral investigations of the physical aspects of sounds, gestational and transitional ideas of liminal spaces, as well as inspiration from naturally-occurring patterns, dynamics and gestures.His album Intuited Architectures (Crónica Electrónica) received critical acclaim, with positive reviews in Neural, Sound Projector, Blow Up, Nitestylez, Vital Weekly, Chain D.L.K., and other international publications.
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