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this wild tongue from "amid these traces" out on Prom Night Records

this wild tongue

Cavities, part 1 (of 4) out on Prom Night Records

Cavities (part 1)

from "amid these traces" on Prom Night Records

Invocation

i followed the lines of god

Single take of a performance for sm48, speaker cone, feedback, and live processing controlled by slight hand gestures. 

Recorded in studio 22 Dec 2018

edited slightly for concision and clarity. unmixed and unmastered

a matter of relation

“We must vacate the here and now for a then and there. Individual transports are insufficient. We need to engage in a collective temporal distortion. We need to step out of the rigid conceptualization that is a straight present." 
- from "Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity" by José Esteban Muñoz


This iteration of upon the horizon, a space of unknowing is for two contrabass clarinets, fixed media, and sonic objects that are part of an ongoing series of new semi-improvisational works reliant on multiple forms of exchange. This work, as an ephemeral articulation, links the breath, sensibilities of queer(ed) time, and the notion of the horizon as aspirational sites of being.

alejandro t. acierto and Julian Rymer, contrabass clarinets

for two contrabass clarinets, fixed media, and sonic objects

Recorded live in the Allen Recital Hall at DePaul University, Chicago, IL on Nov 8, 2018.
 
(this recording is not yet mixed or mastered)

upon the horizon, a space of unknowing

Here, where we continually arrive
for viola and electronics

“for bodies to arrive in spaces where they are not already at home, where they are not “in place,” involves hard work; indeed, it involves painstaking labor for bodies to inhabit spaces that do not extend their shape. Having arrived, such bodies in turn might acquire new shapes. And spaces in turn acquire new bodies.” 

Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology

This work is part of a series of semi-improvisational works reliant on multiple forms of exchange. Excerpted from a larger work with two contrabass clarinets, percussion, and electronics, this work engages the present through sensibilities of queer(ed) time and space. Working through the here and now where the musical material is developed and shaped in real time, this work is based on a series of performative parameters and gestures that are prepared yet unordered. Generated in real time and shaped partially through data sourced from hashtags on Twitter, this work develops from responses to a set of prerecorded viola samples that are activated from the frequency of #LGBTQ. With the increasing presence of queer bodies URL and IRL that enable new and different forms of discourse around our/their bodies, this work for viola develops different forms and shapes with each new performance. 

Ammie Brod, viola 
alejandro t. acierto, electronics

Recorded live at Constellation, Chicago, IL on Dec 9, 2018 by Grayson Elliot Taylor, engineer

(this is a rough recording that is not yet mixed or mastered)

alejandro t. acierto

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