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Build capacity. Kinds of kin and kindness.

Concept and narrative by Rebecca Conroy
Sound design by Dan McHugh

Life can sometimes feel like a long laundry list that you struggle to get through. *Sigh. If this is you, doing the laundry can be a great opportunity to refocus on your core strengths and build resilience into your day.

Walking to the Laundromat is an audio walk that combines mindfulness practice with doing the laundry in an attempt to explain the interconnections between service economy, emotional capital, and affective labour from the perspective of the artists exceptional labouring body.

Walking To The Laundromat

PRG - Rehearsal

I went into the studio armed with two guitars, a bass, keyboard, and drum kit and recorded all of the the parts to this great track from the 'Katy Lied' album by Steely Dan.

All instruments & vocals by Luke Jennings

Black Friday (Steely Dan Cover)

The lyrics, melody and production remain mostly unchanged from the afternoon when we first constructed them. The singing was done in one take. Inspired by our mutual obsession with Doctor Who, broad, late-70s/early-80s inspired software-synthesizers are used throughout. The song concludes with a bassoon and bass clarinet playing quartal phrases, treated with iZotope’s free vinyl plug-in to mimic the sound of an old record. The scream was heavily contested — Trumey felt it should only happen once, Shanny thought it should happen for four or five minutes; we settled on repeated iterations that grew steadily more distorted through a ring-modulator and, thus, less scream-like. The lyrics are a diffractive walking-with philosophers Donna Haraway and Karen Barad (who Trumey was reading) and Missy from Doctor Who (who Shanny kept quoting).

Oblique Curiosities (for Luke)

Wouldn't that (be sexy)

Congratulations Dr. B and the Fam. We will love and miss you. Never letting go! -Bandbaes

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Shanny - David Ben Shannon (Liverpool, England) 
Trumey - Sarah E. Truman (Melbourne, Australia)

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