Grey Canyon Echo is a music video in support of Byron Westbrook’s 2021 album “Distortion Hue” (Hands In The Dark). With its name and with its lineaments of highly resonant harmonics, Grey Canyon Echo conjures the nuanced stratigraphy of an old geologic formation. Extending this metaphor, the video’s spectral analysis similarly cuts a section through Grey Canyon Echo’s timbral strata revealing its vertical and horizontal organization. (The Fast Fourier Transform was, after all, Geologic before it was Sonographic.) The video’s base map is also a transect, recorded during a 2014 research project documenting the variation in land cover types across Colorado’s vast terrain.

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JAN 2021 - Fluid Radio