collapse anatomy by kevin holden + burke jam

This collaborative work between Kevin Holden and Burke Jam initially began when asked to perform at the first RX Fest in Portland, OR in 2019. The initial concept emerged around a ritualized high dB, high sound pressure set to clear the space of any artifice of a bar, club, festival, or social expectation; to define a space of listening and potential.
Synchronously, during the writing and preparation the first-ever image of a black hole, Messier 87, was published. The language around the anatomy of a black hole became synonymous with the language of how the performance was being developed. Ideas of violent collapse, density and mass caving, thresholds of disappearance, and their simultaneous regions– of massive possibility and creation, the trauma of physics, and the physics of trauma.
Lastly, it was created in dialogue with Aase Berg's poem "The Kermadec Grave" from her book Dark Matter, translated by Johannes Göransson; "As if molded in a block we are going to enter the silence of the materials"-A.B.

In the process of mastering, Lawrence English sent back a "Reduction Mix" that instantly became an obvious sonic and conceptual companion to the initial performance and is included in the second half of this edition.

The listener is encouraged to experiment with EQ and levels, as changes in each yield different and varying experiences of the work.
However, to borrow from two of the greats in decibel articulation (S.O. & G.A.):

MAXIMUM VOLUME YIELDS MAXIMUM RESULTS

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