Notes for Listening
Listening to the Mississippi, 2020
In this contribution, artist Monica Moses Haller’s long-term work in and around the Mississippi River Delta is presented in the form of a composition made from field recordings and musical interpretations by Judd Greenstein and Michi Wiancko. The written pages of the “Notes for Listening” that accompany the composition make visible the Indigenous Peoples who live throughout the Delta, while referencing its varied and always changing landscapes, borrowing words by Toni Morrison, Rebecca Solnit, Tia Simone Gardner, and others.
Collaborators and Contributors
Composition:
Judd Greenstein
Michi Wiancko
Mississippi Sound Recordings:
Monica Haller
Sebastian Müllauer
Sound Processing:
Harriet Matzdorf
Monica Moses Haller
Prerna
Notes for Listening Design:
Monica Moses Haller
Matthew Rezac
Notes for Listening Text:
Tia-Simone Gardner, excerpted from “There’s something in the Water,” in Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community, 2019.
Monica Haller, intro text
Matt Rahaim, intro text
Monique Verdin, excerpted from “Ebb and Flow: Migrations of the Houma, Erosions of the Coast,” in Unfathomable City, by Rebecca Snedecker and Rebecca Solnit (University of California Press, 2013)
