The Seashore

Speed It Up (Now)

Abandon Ship

Atomic Bridges (For Cellular Lovers) Ft. Nigel Newton

Slingshot

Priceless Measuring

Nomads

The Only Thing Left

Nestling

Skipping Lanterns

Leave

Categories is a sequence of nightmares interpreted into music through Alexa Dexa's aleatoric process of letter categorization. Each vowel and common consonants R, L, S, T, N were assigned a note. Every letter without a note was assigned a rest. All letters were treated as one quarter note. Using a grid, each concise nightmare telling was translated into a melody. Perhaps people aren’t meant to fully remember nightmares. Maybe forgetting is more humane.

CLEANSE 
gymnasium of playtime 
arts and crafts in gamelan 
need to clean 

INTRIGUE 
rushing to make a deadline 
camper van statues 
intrigue 

INSTANTLY 
massive frozen 
melts down to size 
instantly 

OVERBOARD 
overboard sharks 
swim to avoid 
metal dome safety 

SCHEDULE 
unable to find 
paper schedule 
within my many papers 

WAITING 
cover up dark eye circles 
afraid to miss 
waiting

Composed by Alexa Dexa for robot toy piano, 5 toy record players with custom 3D printed toy records, custom Max patch, pre-programmed ambient electronic sequence, a field recording of Alexa singing with Croatia's sea organ, 5 speakers, and 1 performer. 

Performed and recorded live by Alexa Dexa as part of Phyllis Chen's 2017 UnCaged Toy Piano Festival with Ranjit Bhatnagar's robot toy piano at Roulette in Brooklyn, NY.

Categories Live At The UnCaged Toy Piano Festival

Toychestral electronic pop with soulful vocals, handcrafted soundscapes, and enough instruments made with children in mind to rival a playpen.

Alexa Dexa

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