In this video, white circles flash above the blackened moon, adding an element of silent, peppery percussion to the drone.
Bertucci happened to make this recording during a partial solar eclipse in 2017 she then worked with the experimental filmmaker Bradley Eros to pair five minutes from “Warp & Weft,” a long track off the new album, with eclipse imagery. The slow, oozing sounds become an expression of the empty building’s own bereavement and mourning.
Inside the echoey concrete tower, which hummed with activity during Buffalo’s industrial heyday decades ago, sounds can take about 12 seconds to die out, allowing Bertucci’s droning horn to create layers upon itself, painting in Rothko strokes.
The saxophonist and clarinetist Lea Bertucci recorded her forthcoming album, “Resonant Field,” in a decommissioned grain silo in Buffalo, N.Y.