In the verdant morning, I pace the cobbled square.

The stony statues watchful, the hill-crest lilac too:

No rest thinking of you, on this village evening.

Drums attend the distance, parade rings sharpen the sting, across the sea.

And I can take a stroll, by abandoned abbeys.

I just like the quiet, the speckled spires and tress they help me think.

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)

We took an impression of the song with us on a long walk, including a melody and chord sequence that we had earlier explored on guitar and piano. We later added a sizeable sampled string section, digital static, chinking glass sounds from our walk, and fourteen separate software-synthesizers. Our original vocal takes (sung into the iPad mic) are still incorporated into the song as backing lines and after the first chorus; the lead vocals were re-performed by our old friend Luke Jennings, who also added electric guitars. As a proposition for further thinking the guitars enabled the song to carry additional instrumentation, including taiko drums and field toms, a drum kit, and a bass guitar line. Finally, we added a Cyberman voice to the start of the song saying ‘I waited for you’ through a ring-modulator in reference to the ill-fated Ms. Bill Potts. Some of the synthesizers operate on algorithms that continue to run regardless of whether or not the Play-button is held. Derrida and other post-structuralists, as well as sonic methodologists, have attended to how meaning is always deferred in a text, and the purity of a sounding is always changed by the vibrational media. Even accounting for this, Cruel bliss (sweet pain) is materially different every time it is played, with the performance bounced for distribution only one of innumerable possibilities. Due to this, we haven’t been able to recreate our favorite bounce of the song.

Oblique Curiosities (for Luke)

Cruel Bliss (Sweet Pain)

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

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Trumey - Sarah E. Truman (Melbourne, Australia)

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