Stretching Sound

This is a response to Lee's contribution, Alien Abduction or Sleep Paralysis? Initially inspired by the demonic incubus and succubus, it explores the vulnerability of being asleep and the certain level of disconnect between mind and body that accompanies it. Moving from a wakeful state with the looping chatter of the mind that tends to linger, into a kind of trance as if being slowly seduced by your dreams (or your nightmares). 

This is my response to the feeling of distance we have all had to endure that is woven throughout this thread. Soup is comfort. A warm hug. Hello, it's been a while.

As Tirzah repeats the word ‘again’ at the end, a collection of screenshots from lockdown appear. An archive of my thoughts or things I thought were important during this lockdown, it encompasses the monotony and the strange. The notes app - the recorder of dreams, lists and other things we want to remember. 

I took audio from a recording of me singing 'Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again' when I was a teenager and reversed it along with a looped track of my dad's partner playing the flute. My aim was to give form to the act of day dreaming, something which I do often, as well as include a dissociative feel.

I took audio from a recording of me singing 'Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again' when I was a teenager and reversed it along with a looped track of my dad's partner playing the flute. My aim was to give form to the act of day dreaming, something which I do often, as well as include a dissociative feel.

The sound begins with Vani’s lullaby, followed by a reversed recording of my band inLärm. The rhythms I am able to keep time with, but in this instance representing falling in and out of sleep.

'460 501' represents the number of 0s and 1s in the word 'Liquefaction' when you translate it to binary (010011000110100101110001011101010110010101100110011000010110001101110100011010010110111101101110, or forty six 0s and fifty one 1s).

This is a response to Aubree's moving collage and Lee's The Lizard Woman From the Dawn of Time Will Save Us. Featuring dialogue from writer and philosopher Alan Watts, this work juxtaposes ideas of comfort, support and empathy that can be found in our social networks of family and friends, with a feeling of disconnection and empathy deficit in society at large.

This is my response to Keisha's Lullaby Below the Leaves. Taking into consideration both the audio and the visual, it looks at trying to stay calm amidst the mayhem, maybe even momentarily slipping into a daydream to escape what's going on around us.

Week 3, Visual accompaniment to "Don't mind me, just... figuring stuff out." inspired by the use of projection on a sheet from Lee's work. 

I added a morse code message that reads "go to sleep" that blends in with the piece, I wanted to kind of play on the idea of not being sure if you're hearing something real or imagined, a sort of paranoia that you're not sure is justified.

Week 2, The River of Gloucester - a visual accompaniment to The Tail(or) taken from Jan Svanmajer’s Alice, edited on premiere pro 

This piece responds to the theme of distance, and focuses on the idea of perhaps meditative, perhaps melancholic, searching within that space of disconnection. The choir is taken from BBC’s Peter Rabbit Christmas Special, The Tailor of Gloucester

A visual accompaniment for Lullaby Below The Leaves, gif I made on photomosh of a picture from the protest

I combined Ella Fitzgerald's rendition of lullaby of the leaves and recordings of the protest in the city.

This piece is a response to Lee’s ‘The Lizard Woman From the Dawn of Time Will Save Us’. It is a commentary on the current state of the media and communication, pointing to a reality where AI algorithms are used to keep valuable information from the public in order to keep the peace.

I have responded to Aubree's joyful collaged expression of connection with friends with my hot take on the opposite of love and connection. The playwright David Williamson speaks in the first part of his disdain for neoliberalism (taken from an interview on ABC Radio National), and the lack of social responsibility therein. I have taken screen shots from the anti-social media platform FB for further insights into social irresponsibility to accompany my son's voiceover of one of them. He did question why I asked him to read something so ridiculous. To counter the cold words: a pompom. I have footage and stills from a Doctor Who episode. Doctor Who embodies those attributes of human/alien connection, love, social responsibility and humanity. I have taken a sample of the gun shots at the end of the M.I.A. song “Paper Planes”. I have added distorted strings I recorded from the GarageBand app.