Threshold was commissioned by EMF for the Ear to the Earth Festival 2008. "I recorded many ambient sounds in New York, among them the street traffic during a taxi ride from 53rd Street to 89th Street, the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art, the lobby of the Guggenheim Museum, a trash compacter around 55th Street, an air-conditioning compressor around 54th Street, an industrial document shredder on 87th Street, a floor buffer at MOMA, Olafur Elliason's New York Waterfall #4 at Pier 35, and the traffic beneath the FDR Drive at South Street. I then played my guitar and convoluted all of the recorded ambient sounds with my guitar playing. The result is that the sounds are imposed on one another. You hear none of the sounds directly. What you hear is the interaction between me and my environment."

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