Site–specific sound piece for East Pyne Hall, Princeton University. This piece was part of a series of site–specific work to be listened to via ipod. This piece was part of the Sonic Fragments sound art festival and symposium, 2008.

If our current moment is a culmination of history, what impressions have been stitched together to fashion our most basic experiences of space and time? A wasted miracle investigates how language-based phenomena are necessarily elusive when it comes to giving finite meaning in an historical narrative. Using the Neo-Gothic architecture of East Pyne hall as a metaphor, the audio is comprised of fragments of digitally altered speech structured on the elements that make up this style: the mathematical symmetry of classical Palladian architecture and the "eloquent vulgar" of the Gothic style. The resulting piece looks at the tension in historical documentation between eidetic memory and abstraction.