Garden Variety by Ryan Packard

“Garden Variety is a meditation on interdependence, intimacy, and the emergent behavior of percussion instruments in motion. This series of works serves as a love letter to percussive instruments I've worked with for years, exploring how their immense harmonic and timbral variety reveals a multiplicity of sonic identities that can merge into one another. The compositional development and performance practice of each Garden Variety work remains in constant conversation with the resonant material and its emergent behavior. I'm attempting to let these instruments in motion guide me just as much as I guide them.

The impetus for this series stems from Anne Carson's concept of Eros in her book “Eros the Bittersweet.” Carson's understanding of Eros situates the lover, the beloved, and the impossibly intangible space between them as an ephemeral state — one that can be acknowledged but never held, never obtained. It is within this triangulation between myself, the resonant percussive matter, and this third, ever-evolving ephemeral space — a fleeting world of resonances — that a composite instrument emerges, a temporary floating object built from motion. Here instruments collide and blur their sonic identities.

Amplification becomes integral to revealing this sound world — to be so close to the instrument that one swims inside it. This closeness renders itself as tactile sensation, adding visceral dimensionality to the resonant object as it floats within the listener's body.”

– Ryan Packard

Dinzu Artefacts is focused on the contemporary art of sound by musicians interested in experimental practices, modern composition, improvised music, noise and field recordings.

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