2021 Venti: a Journal of Air, Art and Aesthetics - “Senses”
sound composition 24:00 + writing
2021 Society for Cultural Anthropology Fieldsights series “Art and Ethnography in Dark Times”
essay
(this) writing and (that) sound perform modalities of how air comes to matter in affective registers and sensory thresholds, as toxins or political pressures. The co-mingling of scientific truths and their disturbance.
The recording device mishears the event, or fails to verify what was experienced in phenomenal time, revealing what Michel Serres describes as “...the fragile condition of regularities” of the sensory — a physics of mutable laws. It also fails to make certain sounds renderable as sound: its beginning is a swell toward audibility and a feeling that deepens in your chest.
Repetitions and refrains of noise, flickers and loops or shadow, describe the logics of progress and the intensity at which it is felt, absorbed and processed. Infrasound — frequency that exceeds human audition, but which some animals hear, and some humans experience in other senses — organizes this theory through the sonic.