improvisational sounds for liberation

Artist statement: Each day I will enter the window gallery at SPACE with my cello and a daily intention. I will hold a compassionate space, allowing the music and sounds of the intention and the moment to come through me and my cello in the form of sound.  I will record, layering the cello sounds, until the work tells me it is complete. I will then mix the work and upload it to my website for everyone to listen to. By the end of the week, there will be 7 or 8 separate pieces to listen to.

Everything is vibration. Form is sound. Vibration connects us all. It is my intention for this work to be of service to individuals and the collective in the physical, emotional, and spiritual realms. It is my intention to be of service to the liberation of all beings.  

I offer this work in solidarity with the people of Palestine. I encourage you to take time each day to witness the genocide happening in Palestine. I encourage you to write and call your representatives, to call for a ceasefire, and to stop all military aid to Israel.

Robin Lane will post the recordings here.

Photo by Jenna Henderson/Humanaquarian Art & Design

This project is part of the rotating window gallery solo installations on the occasion of the (stillness) collective’s 534 gallery exhibition.

Robin Lane is a cellist, composer, recording/audio engineer, and educator living in Portland, Maine. Lane’s passion for music ignited at a young age when he began playing the cello, studying through both the Farmington Public Schools and The Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford. He currently attends the University of Southern Maine where he is pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Performance with a concentration in composition and an emphasis in cello performance. Lane performs classical and contemporary works for public and private events throughout New England. Notable performance venues include Camden International Film Festival, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, One Longfellow Square, SPEEDWELL Contemporary, and Maine Yoga Festival. Lane’s compositions and contemporary performance practices are intentional interpretations of moments in the natural and spiritual worlds.