Awaiting, by Rosi Hayes

Awaiting

by Rosi Hayes

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1.	Depth Pool of Talking A 02:10	buy track
2.	Depth Pool of Talking B 02:30	buy track
3.	Depth Pool of Talking C 02:06	buy track
4.	Depth Pool of Talking D 02:32	buy track
5.	Depth Pool of Talking E 02:24	buy track
6.	Depth Pool of Talking F 03:07	buy track
7.	Languish A 01:54	buy track
8.	Languish B 03:03	buy track
9.	Languish C 02:35	buy track
10.	Languish D 02:01	buy track
11.	Languish E 02:02	buy track
12.	Languish F 02:52	buy track
13.	Waited A 01:22	buy track
14.	Waited B 01:45	buy track
15.	Waited C 02:45	buy track
16.	Waited D 02:15	buy track
17.	Waited E 02:34	buy track

about

Songs for Awaiting is a sound work composed by Rosi Hayes for artist Ernesto Pujol’s 12-hour durational performance, Awaiting, which took place at the Utah State Capitol, April 8th, 2010. The soundwork marked the passage of time every half hour for the 40 performers throughout the duration of the performance.

Songs for Awaiting contains bits and pieces of Mormon pioneer hymns and songs, performed as two- or three-note ascending and descending fragments. As native songs to a religion tied closely to the location of the performance as well as to a strict narrative of waiting—whether on the Lord or redemption—the songs are meant to harbor traces of soul calls and the usually subconscious sounds that might befit the unseen forms of the longings that become so rigorously encoded in religion and the architecture of power and language, all of which elide the true impulse that summons the impulse and suffering of waiting.

The piece includes woven interviews with the performers discussing waiting. These narrative structures belie the broken hymns, and are summoned in each sub-composition by field recordings from local sites, such as City Creek canyon and the Bear River Bird Refuge. The sounds become a subterranean flow, bubbling up from ground at the Capitol, manifesting the metaphorical voice of the ground underneath the site and the historical and conceptual voices that have become buried by the terrain and sounds that compose our civic landscape.