SUNDAY SILENCE (Voice of Vashon KVSH 101.9FM)

Originally aired on the Voice of Vashon KVSH 101.9FM on 11/24/2024.

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Late night confessions, early morning prayers... introducing SUNDAY SILENCE. Offering a weekly, hour-long host of devotionals in electronic, ambient, and experimental music, CLOACA reaches wide to make contact with body and soul alike. As we bid farewell to each week’s end, descend into a midnight baptism and let yourself become present with her spirit sounds made real in ecstasy, transformation, catharsis. For this debut episode, we are touching down on songs that contour the oft-diminishing, always broadening experience of love—that most divine of feelings—with selections from Mabe Fratti, Azu Tiwaline, Klein, and more.

CLOACA is Vashon-based DJ / artist, Delphine Tress Morrow. She keeps the faith that music shared is a public service, a liturgy.

SUNDAY SILENCE #1: Inhaling Eros

Originally aired on the Voice of Vashon KVSH 101.9FM on 12/01/2024.

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This is SUNDAY SILENCE Ep. 2—the persistence of memory. If, as Freud claimed, every finding of an object is in fact a refinding of it, there is something essential, perhaps even a prophetic kernel, inside of a memory. On this week’s episode, we are drawing out these lines of sight, listening for the fissures unsealed by the act of looking back. From the gently angular techno of Ken Ishii through to the experimental soundscape composition of Nour Sohkon's Beirut Birds, we discover memory as the shared sensorium of the past as it slides into the present.

SUNDAY SILENCE #2: A fleeting image in the moving water

Originally aired on the Voice of Vashon KVSH 101.9FM on 12/08/2024.

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This week, we are grounding down into the necessary, transfiguring, life-giving pulse sounded out by artists in and from Palestine. These echoes, this poetry, places a crucial demand on us: by listening, to hold open the present to resounding otherwise—with selections from Asifeh, Dakn, and Julmud, among others.

SUNDAY SILENCE #3: “I melt at your glances and become music”

Originally aired on the Voice of Vashon KVSH 101.9FM on 12/15/2024.

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This week’s show takes its inspiration from the Dostoevsky short story, “Belye nochi,” and more particularly, from Luchino Visconti’s radiant film adaptation, Le notti bianche (1957)—the White Nights. Although Dostoevsky was referring to the famous (perhaps anguished) summer nights in St. Petersburg when the sun doesn't set until after midnight, and the sky never reaches complete darkness, Visconti transposes this phenomenon to a snowy winter in Livorno, Italy. What results is a luminous study of the thresholds of and tension between opacity and clarity. From within this suspended relationship, this episode of SUNDAY SILENCE explores the enrichment of sound upon the diminution of the image through selections from Aho Ssan, Mindy Meng Wang, and Remo Fernandes: what new things can be heard upon the silencing of our vision?

SUNDAY SILENCE #4: White Nights

Originally aired on the Voice of Vashon KVSH 101.9FM on 12/22/2024.

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At least since Judy Garland instructed us to “make the yuletide gay,” we have been acquainted with the feeling that something is rotten in the state of the holiday. Judy promises that we just have to wait until next year when faithful friends who are dear to us will be near to us once more; it has more the sound of a desperate bet than a vow made with any certainty… but it is the muddling through somehow that is interesting. This week, we are listening in the precarity of the moment—no golden past, no untroubled future—to hopefully find what calls us back this festive impasse each year. What do the lonely hearts hear in the chill of the night? With answerings from A.k.Adrix, Rachika Nayar, and Sananda Maitreya.

SUNDAY SILENCE #5: Leave Me Alone, Don't Leave Me Lonely

Aired on the Voice of Vashon KVSH 101.9FM on 07/06/2025.

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In 1851, an English astronomer established the Greenwich Meridian—a geographical reference that passes through the Royal Observatory in London. In 1884, the International Meridian Conference asserted the Greenwich Meridian as the universal standard prime meridian for zero degrees longitude. In 1894, an anarchist carried a bomb through Greenwich Park, intending to destroy the public clock of the Royal Observatory, with which time clocks throughout Britain were synchronized; the bomb exploded prematurely, but the thunder repeats like an irregular heart… 

Time is not just measure, but a shadow-play, a median drawn in silence, a subtle line slicing through the skin of the world. This month—in the place where desire, dominion, and memory meet—we are exploring music that does not merely decorate a time signature, but that consecrates historical wounds and devotes itself to reckoning. This is a music that refuses the sterility of perfection in favor of texture, vulnerability, and dissonance.

SUNDAY SILENCE #18: Sync Error (0°)

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