9 A.M. (Eternal)

2020, field recordings, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY

A deeply personal two-part recording, 9 a.m. (Eternal) simultaneously embraces both the inner and outer interiorities of Toussaint-Baptiste’s early morning life in Crown Heights, New York, with mundane practices finding new significance against the neighborhood’s dramatically shifting acoustic and physical landscapes—as boomboxes and soundsystems have turned outward to play from balconies along Eastern Parkway.