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"Untitled" (Time Capsule)
assorted printed paper (loose-leaf, folded, rolled, and accordion binding) in a metal tin
with Ana Smaragda Lemnaru and David Pocknee

A time capsule concerning sound, notation, landscape, and science fiction. The work contains scores for constructing astronomically aligned environmental installations; poetry from the terminology of planetary landforms alongside photographs of parking lots resembling planetary landscapes; prose integrating sound synthesis, monumental structures, astronomy, the sand dunes in the Netherlands, and H. P. Lovecraft; a cryptic musical score in the form of a calendar or star chart; and a waveform of the solar equation of time on translucent paper for constructing a Möbius strip. Edition of 36

untitled time capsule by Robert Blatt