Recollection Remix
Recollection Remix, 2021
A recollection is the action or faculty of remembering something. An indication of a moment that has marked us but remains in the past. Just as a vinyl record has grooves that store the sounds, memories and intentions of the musician, the album cover that further reveals this intention through an image that often burns itself into our psyche as a wholly experienced moment.
In these record collections this concept is reiterated, as song titles, colors and the other various mechanisms our heads and hearts use to organize the moments that bombard us every day. Some are encased forever in resin and preserved. As we restart our shared social experience again, we can unpack our record boxes again. Flip through the titles and recall, regret, return or forget. We remix them together and move into a new day, listening to strains of our past but composing a newly remixed future. New sounds that are the best shared together. The longhouse invites you look through each other’s box of records and remix a new play list together.
Continuing the Longhouse’s inception of re-purposed materials and layered structural rhythms, David Ellis Studio proposes a remix. What gives plywood its tremendous strength and durability are its laminated cross sections stacked in alternating directions. Similarly, the grooves in a vinyl record, under the precision of a turntable’s diamond stylus, amplify a musicians rhythm, melody and memory to our own. The hidden truth within the radiating circular etchings of an LP are its ability to take us on a journey to other vantage points in time and give structure and direction when challenge and uncertainty abound. Its no coincidence that the wood grain in stacked plywood strongly resembles the striations of collected spines in an assorted box of treasured albums. This is an homage to the hand held objects of sound that are the very remnants of our sonic foundations, our collective songs in the many keys of life, the mix-tapes and playlists that bind us together and give us strength in the drum we all share in our chests.
