The culmination of Linda K. Johnson's year-long artist residency amid the construction of Portland's South Waterfront. A rectangular park — a blank plot of grass surrounded by cranes and just-finished high-rise buildings — became the site for an outdoor performance integrating sound, movement, and urban environment.

A PA system mounted on the balcony of a nearby condo mixed ambient tones at a volume just loud enough to blend with the surrounding city. Six performer-participants rode bicycles with portable amps attached, circling the park and playing long drones to create a swirling Doppler effect — then moving among the audience in clusters, streams, and bursts of loosely synchronized sound. At various locations throughout the park, dancers dressed entirely in white performed short interactions, illuminated by a crew holding battery-powered lights on long poles.

South Waterfront, Portland OR — July 2009