Sneaking Suspicion(from The Ringtone Album)

What tips or tricks do you have for living in uncertain times? How do you cope when things feel unpredictable or out of your control? 

Friends, acquaintances, and strangers were asked these questions in June 2025 and invited to anonymously record their responses on a voicemail hotline I set up. Voicemail snippets were then extracted, arranged, juxtaposed against each other, and scored to original music.

The "Uncertain Times" project—both its visual and audio components—are part of the Uproar Festival of Public art, which runs August 1–23, 2025 in Orange County, North Carolina. 

Uncertain Times

Uncertain Times (audio art)

These are incidental tracks composed for Deep Dish Theatre's 2013 production of the Tom Stoppard play Arcadia. If your theatre company is interested in using this music for your own production of this play, please contact felixobelix [at] gmail [dot] com.

Regency Waltz

This seven-segment audio piece is a meditation on grief and loss, integrating field recordings, anonymous voicemails, archival interviews, and original music. Sponsored by the City of Raleigh, Office of Raleigh Arts/SEEK.

Pieces of Grief

Credits

VII. The Big Picture

VI. Advice

V. Other People

IV. People That You Lose That Are Still There (Mental Illness)

III. Loss In A Pandemic

II. Waves

I.  Emotions

Listener Discretion

Felix Obelix is the moniker of interdisciplinary musician and artist Wendy Spitzer. Her diverse output spans music composition and performance, visual and community artmaking, writing, research, and modes of participatory inquiry. Her projects have been funded by Raleigh Arts; Downtown Durham, Inc.; the Durham Arts Council; the Orange County Arts Commission; the Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology; and the Strowd Roses Foundation. Under the moniker Felix Obelix, she has released two albums of original compositions: The Tick of the Clock, the Beat in the Chest on the Pox World Empire label (2010) and The Ringtone Album on the Potluck Foundation label (2013). Other experiences have included a time capsule project, the organization of a genre-bending music festival, original scores composed and performed live to silent films, studio session work, a choir commission, theatre and soundtrack scoring, as well as solo and group visual art shows. She has a Bachelor’s of Music in Performance from UNC-Chapel Hill and a Master of Music in Creative Practice from Goldsmiths College, University of London (UK), which culminated in a final thesis entitled, Trust Them With Your Weird and Strange Notes: An Arts-Based Research Perspective on Vulnerability and the Social Dynamic in Creative Collaboration.

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