Saturday, October 24, 2020

Harvest Home, Part Three: Missisquoi Horizon

 


The Missisquoi River meets Lake Champlain in northern Vermont. In this place, sky and water make big horizons and a sense of open space unlike any other part of Vermont.

This country is more than essential to the Abenaki; a rich and fecund homeland. 

The long, spacious composition below, made in the summer of 2020, is intended as a sonic land, sky, and waterscape: an elemental imagining in sound of this powerful and beautiful place. The slow, swelling glissandos, played on steel guitar, are analogue to the shapes, forms, and motions I perceive in this liminal locus.  -KMB



                                                                            






                                                 Missisquoi Horizon 1

                                                 Painting by Kevin Macneil Brown,

                                                  watercolor and gouache on toned paper, June 2020.