wild human (2018) for solo shakuhachi

wild human can be viewed on vimeo

you can listen to the film’s soundtrack on bandcamp

score can be purchased here

devon recording inside of the Richard Serra statue outside of Carnegie Museum of Art in Oakland, Pittsburgh

wild human (2018) is a documentary made by pittsburgh based director David Bernabo. In 2018, I had the good fortune to participate and write some shakuhachi music as part of this film’s soundtrack.

Bernabo writes: “Wild Human, the ninth feature-length documentary film from Pittsburgh filmmaker/artist/musician David Bernabo, investigates how humanity has replaced wilderness with representations of wilderness.

From maps to national parks to Sea World to nature photographs, humanity’s designs for the world alter the context in which wilderness exists. The results can be harmless (a floral print dress), catastrophic (nuclear bombs), noble (maintaining national parks), or complicated (upsetting natural cycles of life and death while managing fires in Aspen). Falling somewhere between documentary, personal research project, podcast, and performance video, Wild Human uses unorthodox storytelling to indulge in philosophical questions, quirky history, and a bit of doomsaying in analyzing humanity’s loss of wilderness and its piecemeal reconstruction.”