Everything You Touch

113 ECHOES

Welcome to "Everything You Touch," a soundmap at the Diag by Billy Mark. A soundmap is audio art that uses gps technology to allow the direction of your walking to triggger sounds. Wherever you go on the grass surrounding the Diag, you will play different voices, rhythms, and chords. This piece responds to the Octavia Butler quote, "Everything you touch, you change, everything you change, changes you. The only lasting truth is change. God is change". The voices you hear are students lying in the grass, breathing and allowing a stream of consciousness to flow for 20 minutes. Although you have to walk to different areas to hear the different voices, all of the 20-minute voice sessions trigger simultaneously, so they will end around the same time. Feel free to walk through them as you'd like. After the 20-minute voice sessions have ceased, you can walk through the map's music by itself. If you'd like to listen to just one voice all the way through, restart the walk in that location and remain in that zone. And finally, since there are a lot of trees, sometimes the sensor gets wonky. If that ever happens, just restart the app, and you should be good to go. Thanks to Quinn Hunter and Shaunda Bunton for commissioning the piece. And to the entire InterArts class for sharing their beautiful voices.