Response on Elegy
Eric’s piece invoked feelings of enclosure and entrapment. However, I felt as though I was still drifting through space, all too aware of my impending doom, but not concerned about it. The notion of constant solitude is present throughout the piece and tension is never lost until these stand alone sounds start around 3:57. They take you out of your mind if just for a moment.
My relationship to sound is very spatially oriented. No matter what I’m listening to the imagined setting is what I settle into. Elegy took me a dark room (existing beyond the world) in which the shadows of my past played out before me. There is no color except quick flashes of amber light. As if the dawn is trying to break through. These moments reminded me of this short film which exists in a similar zone if not a more dramatic one.