yon ti vizit (21:21)
Voices (in approximate order of appearance): Billy Graham Edmond, Elizabeth Chin, Anetude “Zaza” Geffrard, Ogou Feray, Casey Anderson
Recorded July, 2019 in Matènwa, La Gonâve, Haiti by Casey Anderson
Mastered May, 2020 in Los Angeles, CA by Justin Asher for Mnemonic Recordings
Design by Steven Ziadie
Image of St George from the Nuremburg Chronicle Illustrated by Michel Wolgemut & Wihelm Pleydenwurff
Image of Der Schmidt by Jost Amman
It’s July, 2019 in Matènwa, a small village on the island of La Gonâve, Haiti, and Elizabeth Chin and I are hanging out at our friend Anetude “Zaza” Geffrard’s house while we wait for a party to start. This party involves local voudou drummers so I’m carrying my field recorder in the hopes of recording some of their performance later. As we wait Zaza asks us if we want to see her Grandfather’s house, an older structure covered in cobwebs tucked behind hers that we didn’t know was there. We walk over with her daughter (Rosalinda) and infant son (Billy Graham, crying at the beginning of the recording) and enter the two room house through a thin, wooden door. Once inside, and after the kids have been shooed away, Zaza says she wants to show us her altar and begins praying in front of it. Shortly thereafter a spirit (Ogou Feray) comes to her and we have a little visit (yon ti vizit).
100% of the proceeds from this album will go to the Billy Edmond College Fund.
Casey Anderson (they / them) is designing and repurposing technologies to activate participatory practice, primarily involving explorations of sound, in diverse cultures and communities. Performances, exhibitions, and residencies include MOCA - Los Angeles (CA), ISSUE Project Room (NY), STEIM (NL), Atlantic Center for the Arts (FL), Mass MOCA (MA), The Walker Art Center (MN), and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (CA). They co-founded, and co-edited (with John P. Hastings and Scott Cazan), the Experimental Music Yearbook, and own and operate a wave. They currently live in Los Angeles, California, co-run Trade School with Arden Stern, and teach at KAOS Network and ArtCenter College of Design.
Elizabeth Chin is an anthropologist and ethnographer with a varied practice that includes performative scholarship, collaborative research, vernacular electronics, and experimental writing. Her work interrogates race and racism with fieldwork in the US and in Haiti. Currently she is Editor in Chief of American Anthropologist.
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