Amplify2020: quarantine

Democracy by English (Bonnie Han Jones & Joe Foster)
https://amplify2020.bandcamp.com/album/democracy

recorded in Baltimore and Seoul, March 2020
photo by Beatrice Murch
released April 4, 2020

A collaboration by the project English (Bonnie Jones/Joe Foster), who were planning on a duo concert in Spring 2020. This would have been the first time the duo had come together in over a decade.

This piece combines two solo recordings taken by Jones and Foster. These solos were later released on their own.

Since I Don’t Know When by Joe Foster
https://amplify2020.bandcamp.com/album/since-i-dont-know-when

an hour is a sea by Bonnie Han Jones
https://amplify2020.bandcamp.com/album/an-hour-is-a-sea

All work was creating in Spring 2020 and released as part of AMPLIFY 2020: quarantine.

https://www.erstwhilerecords.com/amplify-2020-quarantine.html

from the notes for the project:

on March 12, 2020,
as the world was increasingly forced into isolation,
we began planning the online AMPLIFY 2020: quarantine festival.

on March 20, 2020,
we began posting newly recorded pieces from sound artists around the world.

on September 20, 2020,
​we ended the festival after six months, 240 pieces and 80 hours of sound.