Through my research I have become particularly aware that the formation of knowledge can be understood as a system; a concept is developed, transposed, and made relative through the interpretation of an individual (or media), and re-transmitted.

With So Sweet, So Cold, So Fair (2010), I address this idea of translation as being a form of interpretation and subjectification. The work is comprised of a series of sourced recorded performances of various versions of the song St. James Infirmary Blues, dating from between 1931 to 2007. For this particular work the incorporation of disparate musical elements was far more than a matter of simply illustrating this concept, or of pastiche. I was interested in exploring how the proximity of each of the elements involved articulates the nuances of change in each interpretation. In it I use a series of videos that run simultaneously. Each performance is at once mimetic and intuitive. Far from being a simple exercise in comparisons, the work ultimately develops into a complex amalgam, combining individual sonic components. The interplay of sounds is reconstructed as a composition in which the diverging fragments and motifs cohere at different points, bringing some semblance to the underlying score.