translation trials by Caroline Kraabel

These are recordings of my playing alone at home, made on 26 June, 1 July, 8 July, and 25 July 2025.

They are improvisations; a few were intended as trials of performance, some as tests of sounds, approaches, techniques (these came about spontaneously when I played... I followed, or tried to, what my body, my ears desired); others were the result of curiosity to hear what could happen with very little outside stimulus.

As documents, these pieces may present what occurred with less lacking than is the case on many audio recordings of improvised music, because there was relatively little extra-sonic content to be missed: just me, alone in my body in a room with my saxophone.

Tracklist

1.	voice into brass	1:53

2.	paired languages	2:40

3.	chewing into singing	3:14

4.	root into leaf	2:03

5.	fingers into teeth	3:17

6.	vowel into consonant	5:28

7.	cord into reed	12:24

8.	line into block	4:41

9.	throat into tongue	5:04

10.	suffering into fool	24:29

11.	loud into quiet	11:22

12.	valley into alp	6:29