SonicAnta: SOUNDS
Work For Steel Rail, Two Musicians and Crickets
(SonicAnta)
July 14, 2008
Glenn Weyant/Kestrel Weyant
This track was created by playing a segment of steel rail found along the U.S./Mexico border in Sasabe, Arizona with a cello bow and implements of mass percussion.
The segment appears to have begun life as a train rail roughly 100 years ago. At some point it was shipped to the border where it was welded into a barricade to slow human and vehicle traffic.
The found segment seems to have been created when the barricade was dismantled to make way for a roughly $57 million wall of steel columns.