The Volume I Soundtrack
Another way through Volume I.
Every work within Volume I carries one or more songs.
These songs were not added after the works were completed. They belong to the conditions in which the work developed—preserving emotion, atmosphere, memory, repetition, and time in ways that images and objects cannot hold alone.
Together, they form the soundtrack to Volume I.
SOUND AND THE WORK
Sound does not explain the artwork.
A song may have been playing when something was noticed.
It may have repeated while a work developed.
It may preserve the emotional conditions of a particular period.
It may connect works made years apart.
Or silence may be the most accurate condition.
Within Volume I, sound is held alongside the visual, material, spatial, and written elements of the work. It provides another relationship through which something may become recognizable.
Listening is optional.
LISTENING AT THE RIGLEY FIELD
Visitors encountering Volume I at The Rigley Field may listen to the soundtrack while moving through the installation, remain with a single song, choose only the tracks connected to particular works, or experience the gallery without sound.
There is no prescribed sequence.
The soundtrack offers another way to pay attention.
Pay attention.