A TENDER PERFORMANCE EXPLORING SOUND’S SACRED ABILITY TO SUPPORT, COMFORT, AND BOTH WARM AND COOL THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. THIS PERFORMANCE UTILIZES INTIMATE FIELD RECORDINGS AIMING TO CREATE A SONIC ENVIRONMENT EMBODYING LOVING EMBRACE AND CLOSENESS. THIS PIECE IS SET TO THE BACKDROP OF CALLIE’S KITCHEN - A PLACE THAT HAS PROVIDED DEEP COMFORT AND NOURISHMENT TO HER BODY AND THE BODIES OF LOVED ONES. THE KITCHEN IS ADORNED WITH NUTRITIVE FRUITS, HERBS, PAINTINGS AND DRAWING, PHOTOS OF CALLIE’S FAMILY AS WELL AS TOKENS EITHER PASSED DOWN TO HER BY HER ANCESTORS WHO SHE IS SENDING DEEP GRATITUDE TO THROUGHOUT THIS PERFORMANCE. SHE USES HER VOICE (WHICH IS BEING MANIPULATED USING A VOCAL PEDAL AND AN SP 404 TO MANIPULATE AND WEAVE TOGETHER COMPOSITIONS AND NUGGETS OF VOCAL SNIPPETS DOCUMENTING INTIMACY BETWEEN LOVED ONES AND THE COMPLICATED BUT MAGICAL RELATIONSHIP OF ONESELF TO THEIR PHYSICAL BODY. SHE HOPES THAT THIS ARCHIVE OF SOUND BRINGS CLOSENESS AND WARMTH, SOLACE AND CARE DURING THIS TIME OF ISOLATION. DEEP THANK YOU TO ARLEN PEIFFER, MY PARTNER FOR FILMING THIS PIECE.

Link to "Soft Protection + Saturated Response" (Stoarge Container Episode 2,
with Vanessa Samp, Sasha Zamani, and Tristan Friedberg Rodman