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<p class="has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-large-font-size" style="color:#181818"><strong>Sound the Asylum</strong> (2023 – )</p>
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<p class="has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color" style="color:#181818">We are in the early stages of this project. In November, 2023, we presented Sound the Asylum at the 2023 Sensory Decay Symposium (University of Amsterdam). The recording of our talk is in the playlist below, along with the 4 audio examples we reference in our talk.</p>
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<p class="has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color" style="color:#181818">For more information about Sound the Asylum, visit: <a href="https://flowercat.org/sta/" title="">flowercat.org/sta</a></p>
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<p class="has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-large-font-size" style="color:#181818"><strong>bourdon 60hz [n°13]</strong> (2020)</p>
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<p class="has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color" style="color:#181818">Bourdon 60Hz&nbsp;is a sound meditation performance of sine waves and trombone tuned to 60Hz. When one is asked to spontaneously hum a note, the pitch tends to match the utility frequency, or mains hum, because this frequency is integrated into our perceptual habits. In North America and parts of Asia, this frequency is 60Hz, while in the majority of the rest of the world it is 50Hz.&nbsp;Bourdon—meaning drone and derived from French for bumblebee and buzz—invites the audience to tune their individual embodiment of this ubiquitous tone by softly humming along as they listen.&nbsp;Bourdon&nbsp;offers space for contemplation and regeneration with an otherwise unwelcome frequency.<br><br>• <a href="https://flowercat.org/bourdon-38/" title="more bourdon">more <strong>bourdon</strong></a></p>
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<p class="has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color" style="color:#181818">mem mer mère transforms eight measures of Debussy’s <strong>La Mer</strong> into one giant slow-motion wave. Performed by Melissa Grey &amp; David Morneau with cellist Kate Dillingham and live visualist Marc Fiaux, this music magnifies the formidable eight-measure cello excerpt from La Mer. As Dillingham’s cello and David Morneau’s trombone incant the sea using fragments of <strong>La Mer</strong>, Melissa Grey—like Salacia in her realm—interweaves them through layers of shimmering live sound processing that conjure the ocean.<br><br>• <a href="https://artisteordinaire.org/mmm/" title="more mem mer mère">more <strong>mem mer mère</strong></a></p>
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