sound


the limitation of archives


sound travels as a vibration through materials. it goes through us, our bones and flesh and nerves and fat and air and water without asking for permission. the level of intimacy that it imposes is similar to that generated by food and drink.

sound is ecstasy. recipe: stand in front of a bicycle wheel that is held tight on a truing stand. pluck the spokes. listen carefully to their pitches. tighten them or loosen them. over and over until the wheel is true. ritual, repetition. the brain slows down. the wheel generates a magnetic field. presence and protection.

sound is terror. recipe: too much sound stimulations, too much noise, or too much vibration. overstimulation, body on alert, severely aggressed. no way to close our ears and to hold ourselves still. ears, bones, brain, nerves, muscles, fascia, collapse. space disorientation, dizziness, nausea especially for those who have problems with laterality.

diarrhea

tinnitus

for ever

where are you dear soul?


and now some archives (2015-2022)


warning: my sounds are closest to the moment they were conceived. they are not processed.


activism with an ethic of live only

looking for a safe home (2022)
ODSP on wheels (2019)

pirate FM radio with hopes for systemic change, live only

radio equals (2014-2017)
radio confessions (2014)
trans temporary radio (2013)

sound recordings while in urgency

you do not deserve housing (2020)
my helpers speak (2020)

albums of sound

binaural (2021)
with the wheel (2021)
VLF (2019)
before the wheel (2019)
an(n)als of verbal (2016)

tracks

shame of survival mud (2017)
spoke sounds in "Para sa Apu Liling" (2018)

one of my voice improvisations with other musicians

faster [anti]-christmas special (2015)
invitation by Kayla Milmine and Brian Abbott, Array Music, Toronto, documentation by Michael Lynn