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 major pentatonic scale, from which we construct our melody, uses the first five tones heard when sounding consecutive intervals of a fifth (five tones apart) from the first note of a key (C, G, D, A, E). These tones are then rearranged within one octave; in our song this produces the tones C, D, E, G, A. George Russell (1953/2001) argues that the fifth is the second most open-sounding interval (after the octave) due to its placement in the overtone series — where the doubling of the frequency of a tone produces an ever-darkening series of intervals. We ‘riff’ on this, by flattening the third during the English translation. This changes the sequentially fifth interval from a fifth (A, E) into a tritone (A, Eb), an interval historically banned by the Church for its satanic qualities. We include also seal-songs sampled during the Pilgrim’s Path mud walk during the culture’s concluding A Capella section. The lyric hook is from a sad phrase Trumey overhead in Nanjing many years ago that has always haunted her （不爱就是不爱）.

Oblique Curiosities (for Luke)

All (不爱就是不爱)

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

FlowerPowerGirl(LoveNoLimit)producedbyPorshé

Ions

Oblique Curiosities is:

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

All (不爱就是不爱)

Oblique Curiosities

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