reincarnated

Live performance of Sisyphus, premiered on April 27, 2024 at St James Cathedral, Chicago. Performed by Chicago Composers Orchestra, conducted by Allen Tinkham.

Sisyphus

Feeds full of fake-smile filters, friction flickers—quick-hit clout, Core gets sicker, I'm the sticker stuck inside your Insta-picture. Every quote sound cloned, I'm the clone, the code, the glitch, Heart-rate flat, just quicker triggers, quicker, quicker—I'm sick, literally sick.

I'm the sickness, the symptom, the synapse misfiring, Scroll never stops and I'm stuck in it—din-ding-ding, I'm wired in it. Chin-deep in the thick shit, thick-skull thick-headed, thick-thumbed, thick-skinned, But I'm thin-minded, thin-lined, thin-stretched, thin-winning, can't win.

I ain't cold, I'm numb—overtaxed from the scroll, I'm numb-skull, Dumb-luck, dumb-struck, numb from the thumb-rub searchin' for soul but— Plot twist—there's no soul left to find, just the search bar's grind, DMs dry, noise too loud, I'm dry-heaving, drowned-out, denied.

Pac said change, Em said pain—wait, I am Em, and I'm saying this brain? Wired, rewired, fired-up, tired, mired, caught in the same lane, Switch lane, flip frame, skip game—can't, the game got the reins, Real ones rare like source-code un-tamed, but 
I'm tame, go insane.

Every breath is data left, left-over, left-handed, left-for-dead. chase the clicks instead of the depth, and the depth? That's gone, it's dead.

SOURCE_SICK

I dedicate this rap to André 3000. a giant


Cache crash, hash-tag gash in my attention span, I'm slashed, Bandwidth crammed, damned, slammed—I'm the lag, the drag, the man Who can't stand but still stands in line for the timeline's design, Sign in, sign off, sign away—I'm assigned to the grind, resigned.
Swipe right for the fight, swipe left for what's left of my head, Fed threads, spread dread, bread-dead, living off likes instead, Instead of breaking bread, I'm breaking bad, breaking down each breakdown, Shakedown in a takedown, fake-crown on a playground, stay down.
Bit-rot in my thought-slot, caught hot, screenshot my blind spot, Mind's not mine, it's a time-slot, prime-time crime, I'm fine—I'm not, Bot-talk, tick-tock, grid-lock, my heart's a stopped clock—tick... stop, Wrist-watch my wrist-cuts from the handcuffs of the non-stop.
Dopamine dealing, feeling nothing, reeling, wheeling through the ceiling, Stealing feelings from the feed to feed the needing—bleeding, kneeling, To the algorithm's rhythm, prison-prism, schism-wisdom, system's Got me twisted, listed, fisted—I existed, now I'm grifted.
 Double-tap to tap out, mapped out, slapped down, capped out, Clapped out, rapped out, trapped out—I'm a mapped route, apt doubt, Screen-time crime-scene, lime-green online, I'm offline when I'm online, Mainline the main-feed, brain-bleed, I'm a shrine to the decline.
Verification falsification, validation's just vibration, Notification suffocation, conversation's automation, Nation of the stationary, scary how we're voluntary Solitary, commentary, legendary sedentary cemetery.
Black mirror, crack clearer, track nearer to the back-error, Stack terror, hack bearer, fact-checker checking back never, Sever the tether? Better remember I'm the member who surrendered, Rendered in the blender, sender, lender of my temper to the vendor.
Thumb-numb, dumb-sum of the outcome, I'm undone, outdone, Shotgun to my attention, mention tension? I'm the one who spun, Run the simulation, stimulation, stipulation, situation's Just a mutation, computation of my own participation.
 Scroll-toll, soul-hole, control-console controlling my whole role, Parole from the patrol, extol the protocol, alcohol in my thumb-scroll, Every poll a bullet-hole, glory-hole for my story-hole, Forty-fold manifold, I'm sold, cold, old before I'm told I'm old.
Metadata predator, data-trader, infiltrator, commentator, Spectator of my own creator, violator, simulator, Later, hater, crater where my gray-matter was fatter, Scatter, shatter, flatter, chatter doesn't matter—splatter.
Infinite scroll through the infinite hole of my infinite soul, Control-alt-delete but I can't complete the compete to delete, Repeat, entreat, mistreat, deadbeat heartbeat, can't meet the feat, Seat myself in the heat-death defeat, concrete under my feet.

NULL / SKULL

“Wags” – No Names, All Flame [excerpt]

Scroll Toll

Binaural production - listen with headphones!
Mixed impressions of Dortmund, an industrial town in the German Ruhr area where a ten-hour concert took place at the Petrikirche. While Wolfgang Kogert was rehearsing my organ piece, 'Partikel-Bewegung', the city was celebrating Halloween.

A generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes, which were recorded in Dortmund (Germany) on 31 Oct and 1 Nov 2025.
Released: 7 Nov 2025

1) Wolfgang Kogert rehearses my organ piece, "Partikel-Bewegungen," at Saint Petri Church.
2) The minutes before Mass starts at the Probstei Church with the evening bells.
3) A Christmas market in the town center.
4) Midnight in the pedestrian zone on Halloween Eve


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D.O.R.T. (Demanding Organist Requires Tension) - BINAURAL

Binaural production - listen with headphones for full immersion!

I embarked on a dreamlike journey through Cologne when I visited the Museum Ludwig that presented collaborative works by John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg. An interactive installation by the latter encouraged visitors to engage in unusual activities such as clapping, shouting, singing and whistling. Occasionally, you would also hear the gentle voice of John Cage. Afterwards, I immersed myself in the cathedral, which resonated with the sounds of its visitors.

A generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes, which were recorded in Cologne (Germany) on 2 Nov 2025.
Released: 10 Nov 2025

1) The gallery rooms at the Museum Ludwig, which feature videos of John Cage and Merce Cunningham.
2) An interactive installation by Robert Rauschenberg that responds to visitors' sounds.
3) Inside Cologne Cathedral.
4) The cathedral's crypt.

K.Ö.L.N. (Karneval Öffnet Lustige Narren) - BINAURAL

trecho de apresentação no FIME
31 de julho de 2015

Cecilia Quinteros: r u i d o²

Performance of Fernanda Aoki Navarro's "H," commissioned by Accordant Commons, on March 18, 2016 at Automata, Los Angeles.
Performers: Marja Liisa Kay, Stephanie Aston

Fernanda Aoki Navarro H

Festival que teve sua primeira edição em julho de 2015, com participação de artistas de diversos países, tocando em diversos espaços culturais de São Paulo.
Segunda edição prevista para julho de 2016.
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FIME had its first edition in July 2015, with artists from several different countries playing in São Paulo.
Second edition will take place in July 2016.
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O FIME – Festival Internacional de Música Experimental é organizado pelo Ibrasotope. A primeira edição foi realizada em parceria com o SESC-SP, e teve apoio do Governo do Estado de São Paulo e da Secretaria de Estado da Cultura por meio do Proac – Programa de Ação Cultural.

Cecilia Quinteros: r u i d o²

FIME

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