adrift: graphic notations for watermusic ii by arshad hakim

self-published

English

Softcover

Pages: 28

“a friend said that there are people who live life with a background score running all the time. for quite a while, watermusic ii was that for me, and i was adrift. the drawings are the residue of that drift. at the same time, i was reading various texts, whatever held my attention—another kind of drifting. at my day job at a museum, i was trained by another friend in writing alt text and image descriptions. she kept saying, isn’t this like poetry?”

a deck of drawings and image descriptions based on Watermusic ii, an hour-long, one-track album by William Basinski, released in 2003. ‘adrift: graphic notations for watermusic ii’ is imagined as a triad: to be heard, read, and seen together.