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The North Pacific Garbage Patch

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The North Pacific Garbage Patch
composed by Damon Waitkus

Around the time I was writing this piece in 2011, I read an article on The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a massive deposit of human debris, mostly plastic, that has been accumulating for decades in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Bits of floating plastic are wreaking havoc on marine life—disturbing algae growth upon which whole food chains depend by blocking out light, leaching toxic chemicals into the water, and killing marine animals that accidentally ingest it. This, like so many other anthropocene-era threats to life as we know it on the Earth requires a level of international coordination that is so difficult to imagine actually happening, it is easy to fall into a dangerous sense of helplessness. There is little peace in this piece—it is largely an expression of anxiety, anger, and bewilderment at the scale of the problems before us.

As far as the music is concerned, my process here was intuitive and emotional. Although I’m at home working with rock instruments, this is the heaviest piece of music I’ve ever written, stylistically, by a wide margin. I’m not sure where that came from!

I was bowled over by The Living Earth Show’s virtuosity and musicality when I heard them play, and found, maybe for the first time as a composer, that I could write what I wanted to hear without compromise: Travis and Andy could pull off just about anything I came up with. Far from being written in a vacuum, however, the piece is the result of quite a bit of back and forth between myself and TLES—rehearsals were already well underway and I got to hear how things were sounding and make adjustments long before I had a complete piece on paper. I’m very proud of what came of this collaboration, and thrilled to finally be able to show it to the world.

Damon Waitkus, composer

Damon Waitkus is the leader of the critically-acclaimed avant-folk ensemble Jack O’ The Clock, whose colorful, elaborate songs “conjure up stirring visions of a hybrid American history, part fact, part poetry, part visionary hallucination” (Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector). The group’s seventh studio album, “Leaving California,” will be released on Cuneiform records in 2021.

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In addition to working with Jack O’ The Clock, Damon has composed for a variety of chamber ensembles and orchestra, and has created music for three documentary films. He currently lives in Vermont.

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released December 28, 2020
Composed by Damon Waitkus
Performed by The Living Earth Show (Andy Meyerson & Travis Andrews)
Recorded at Women's Audio Mission
Engineered by Maya Finlay & Travis Andrews
Produced & Mixed by Damon Waitkus & Travis Andrews
Mastered by Ryan Kleeman

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