Making a Flute on Sept. 11, 2001 to process the day
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I turned off the TV on the afternoon of Sept. 11th and went outside to a Cape Cod day to do something. What I do is make flutes from sturdy reeds and record music with them. These reeds are easy to work with. I can make a flute quickly -less than an hour - and create a powerful focusing instrument for emotions. When words fail me, crafting and playing a reed flute focuses all my senses - I literally try to "make sense" of what happened and move through stages of emotion with sound.
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Review of Crafting a Sound Response - Sept. 11 Memorial
This is more sound rich meditation than commentary. With thoughtful, evocative writing and delivery, Producer Michael Joly offers us his individual response to the destruction of 9/11 by his act of creation. Throughout this short piece you hear his crafting of a flute as he goes through all the stages of grief while making a flute out of a piece of wood. The piece builds to a bit of a frenzy and then at the end, there's an "ah" moment with the long slow note of the flute... then a mournful song. This is one stand out piece. It can easily be aired on any news magazine on the anniversary of 9/11.