sister sface is a collective of mostly microbial organisms. once born in a valley, they now coexist by the sea, where they whisper incantations for simple gifts.
brother db loves all misbehaving things that come alive! bro db creates theatre, puppets, live projections, and audience immersion.
Artist Location: San Pedro and Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, CA
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dialogues of|through|in despair
this work draws on explorations of what despair sounds like and how sound can be used to resist despair.
we have witnessed how militarized violence impacts the soundscapes of our city.
we’ve also seen how PPE has been transformed from labor and virus protection to protection from tear gas.
our installation is inspired by a health department PPE safety training for respirator use, where participants read a poem that causes the face to move drastically which helps to verify that their PPE is fitted. we then use linguistic theorems to degrade the signals of the original script and map those degradations to sound signals. participants will also have ways to interact with the installation by interacting with common objects (whistles, buttons, megaphones, etc) to see how they can change the sound of despair.
Ferm Bubbles
This interactive sound installation takes its inspiration from the process of fermentation: the fizz and pops of bubbles created from yeasts breaking down complex carbohydrates in various substrates and how light can alter and slow the process. The installation invites attendees not just to observe fermentation but to also be in community with and through live cultures.
This project uses an original MAX/msp patch to magnify and isolate the sounds of bubbles from substrates contained in glass jars in different stages of fermentation. The patch also pulls tones and sounds from fermentation into random bursts of noise that respond to changes in light.
The visual set up will focus on the fermenting jars (of varying substrates such as kombucha, rice wine, and shoyu) and encourage the audience to either shade the jars or use flashlights to change the rate at which the randomizer and bubbles relate in the noisescape.