Sacred Nights_Ambient XMAS

(2023, performance, album, naughty list interactive reading)

Sonic collages of manipulated public domain holiday music, samples, and synthesized sound explore the tranquility, the excess, the nostalgia, the anxiety, and the noise that the end of December contains. While absent of the normal holiday nostalgia, the piece walks a line of familiarity even as it descends into chaos or discordant moments. As part of the performance, viewers submit something they did over the course of the year that would be considered naughty. The anonymous naughty admissions are placed into the mouth of a three-eyed Santa and read out loud before being hung on an upside-down Christmas tree. A gift-wrapped cassette and three-eyed Santa ornament are gifted to all participants.