简介
“Wilderness. The word itself is music.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
On first listen, the acoustic fingerprint of the Sonoran Desert --- some 110,000 square miles embedded in the southwest landscape of the United States and northwestern Mexico --- is a place of vivid silence.
But with extended listening comes complex acoustic horizons where distance and volume are irrelevant.
Artists often imbibe the Sonoran Desert with a mythology of precious beauty, watering down its humbling power and sublime majesty with comfort and caution.
Along the border where the cultural deltas of the United States and Mexico overlap, migrants seeking better lives die by the hundreds every year and only commerce seems capable of overcoming the undertow of otherness. On both sides of the border, cities sprawl,