2021-03-21: By 2100 every beach you've ever walked on will be under the waves...
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Demotape samples & voice: model's own...
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2021-03-21 By 2100 every beach you've ever walked on will be under the waves

Edited sounds sourced from field recordings from a rusty piano string section left outdoors in the winter of 2023

Uncanny Nausea

Performed by Simone Seales 
Recording by Darlene Zarabozo

Ground Clouds -- Rylan Gleave

Originally shown as part of Tracing the Archipelago at Kudos Gallery

Federal Highway Charles Andersen VC Rest Area,  2018, field recording from cruising spot

This sprawling audio essay explores ideas of space, trespass and queerness through field recordings, memories and an online map. An abridged version of this will appear in Queer Out Here Issue 04: https://www.queerouthere.com/listen/

Best listened to on headphones.

Australian field recordings taken on Boonwurrung and Wurundjeri (Woiwurrung) and Krowathunkooloong (GunaiKurnai) country. Thank you to Queering the Map (https://www.queeringthemap.com/) for permission to include user-submitted pins from their map in this piece. Queering the Map pins read by Dan, Jess from Canada and Stephanie Lai. Additional field recordings by Emily, Jenny and S-J Smith.

Content notes: swearing and non-explicit stories about sex.

A Cartography Of Tresspass

This piece was created for the issue 04 of Queer Out Here. Find more information about it here https://www.queerouthere.com/

In this piece, the listener follows me as I go diving for the first time with some friends. It journeys from being terrified of the idea of going underwater to braving my fears and diving under the surface. 

The event is recounted in words and a variety of sound recordings that aim to recreate my feelings and experiences of the day. The piece aims to create an atmosphere and transport the listener with me. As such, and due to the nature of the sounds used, it is best listened to through headphones.

Acknowledgements: This piece uses the following recordings sourced via freesound.org (all links can be found on my website www.allysseriordan.info or at www.queerouthere.com): pushtobreak - Earth, Wind, Fire Pack - Water 1 / pushtobreak - Earth, Wind, Fire Pack - Water 2 / pushtobreak - Earth, Wind, Fire Pack - Water 4 / 170134 - Heartbeat / Timgormly - Outdoor Suburb Summer / Richwise - Summer City Birdsong / ScreamStudio - Moving Low Frequencies / CUeckermann - Someone Putting On A Blazer / ckr365 - Short Car Trip / Dobroide - Breathing / Robinhood76 - 01019 Car Door 3 / Julien Nicolas - Seaside Wave EQ / tim.khan - Seaside Cove Waves / vuralyavas - Seaside 2 / Arnaud Coutancier - Waves On Seaside Rocks 1 / YoloSwaggins - Underwater Ambiance / Tyops - Diving Smooth Drowning / Martysonic - Strange Diving / felix.blume - Water Splash / HDVideoGuide - Scubadiving 01 / digifishmusic - Scuba 1 / carmsie - Underwater Sounds Loopable

I am still breathing (headphones highly recommended)

This piece was created for the issue 03 of Queer Out Here. Find more information about it here www.queerouthere.com/

I set out to record a piece about my love of cycling but while I was doing so, this field recording happened and I fell in love with it. I was standing on a quiet Somerset lane next to my bike. As normal there was some shooting going on (clay I assume) and a lot of birds. I was enjoying the relative quiet when a small airplane came in, followed by cyclists, cars, horse riders, a bigger airplane, and finally the shooting and birds again. I felt I had captured a slice of a typical beautiful Spring Sunday in the lanes of Somerset when everybody is out enjoying the sun. All I was missing were joggers and ramblers but then, they were probably in the fields rather than the road.

The British countryside

Remember those days when you could . . . go out? Come along with Aneurin (they/them) and Kermie (they/them) and meet some animal friends at Collingwood Children's Farm on Wurundjeri land, Melbourne, Australia. Special thanks to Fly the dog, pictured.

TRANSCRIPT

[A gate opens on the sounds of a valley filled with birdsong, farm animals, faint voices, and a hint of cityscape]

Aneurin & Kermie: Hi! [Laughter]

Aneurin: I'm Aneurin -

Kermie: And I'm Kermie -

Aneurin: And that's Fly the dog, being very quiet. [People shuffle by] Oh, good girl, Fly.
[Some sheep bleat. A pig snuffles up close, against a metal fence]

Kermie: Who's the pig?

Aneurin: Oh!  The pig's name is Maybelle, according to the sign, on the paddock. [Maybelle huffs a few times]

Kermie: [whispering] Thank you, Maybelle.

Aneurin: And we are all at Collingwood Children's Farm. [Tapping on wooden fence. In the background a farmer calls, “Myrtle!”] And it's Queer Out Here.

[The farmer calls Myrtle again and whistles, a young child speaks in a similar rhythm to the farmer. The birdsong grows louder. Another bleat. A voice comes faintly over a walkie-talkie: “Hey Bridget, did you get the chance to have a look at…” Sound fades out and in.]

Kermie: I turned around and walked into a goat who was right behind me and was all snuggly. [Goat scratching sounds, interrupted by a lumpy, throaty sound] That was a goat swallow. [More goat scritching, fade out.]

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Greeting 21: Aneurin and Kermie

The Changing

Ometeotl / nya:wëh sgë:nö' / haa marúawe / Tēnā koutou katoa.  This sound piece is a guest track created with voices of water, wind, fire, rock and other elemental beings that teach humans about our powers to transform, flow and (re)create our body-spirits.  Journeying through the many layers of self-manifestation as Indigenous transpeople, we center on the movement or energy of trans embodiment by listening more deeply to our elemental ancestors.  As we lead with the interplay of more-than-human voices, we release linear concepts of space or time, weaving our personal reflections to reclaim our trans sovereignty; Indigenous trans people are as traditional and ancient as creation.  Open your ears and heart to a ritual of sound, find a good pair of headphones and turn up the volume!   

Maramingpo Salamat / wado (Cherokee syllabary: ᏩᏙ) / Ngā mihi ki a koutou.  We give thanks to the lands of our ancestors, who create us and continue to guide us.  We give thanks to the lands and guardians where we currently live and work for allowing us to work alongside you and sharing your teachings with us: Kirikirioa, Aotearoa, the upland forests near sq̓ʷuʔalqʷuʔ.  We thank tangata whenua, especially Alejandra Jensen Whakataka, who teach Rafael/a about taonga pūoro and helped to play and record the oro of puruhau, ponga īhu, pūtōrino, porotiti, and pūrerehua.  We also give big thanks to Itai Jeffries and Morgan Thomas at NPAIHB for bringing us together to create this project!  Thank you to the beings who lent their voices to the piece and continuously teach and inspire us. 

Who We are:

Rafael/a Luna-Pizano (Ilocano, Visayan, MeXicano, unnamed) has grown near Tongva and Chumash mountains, Mount Tahoma and always next to Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa (the Pacific ocean).  Rafael/a is a mover, noise-maker and poet who is currently working on a creative practice PhD at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato in Kirikiriroa, Aotearoa.  Through a combination of sound, movement and voice, he continues to co-research how ritual practice can bring forth the ancestral knowledge stored inside Indigenous transpeople’s bodies as a reflection of our elemental lineage.  He can often be found creating guerrilla art and ritual at the water or in the stairwells.  Rafael/a recently built a small bahay kubo with other Indigenous, baklat and takatāpui artists and moved it through the streets of Te Whanganui-a-Tara as a call to uplift queer, Indigenous spaces of rest and resistance.   Rafael/a loves to play and grow through dance, voice and just being alive in his trans body.

Raven Two Feathers (Cherokee, Seneca, Cayuga, Comanche) (he/they) is a Two Spirit, Emmy award winning creator based in Seattle, WA.  Originally from New Mexico, they spent their childhood moving and exploring Indigenous cultures across the continent and Pacific.  They returned to New Mexico to attend Santa Fe University of Art & Design, graduating magna cum laude with a BFA in Film Production.  After graduation, their path led them to working on and creating more Indigenous art than ever and things began to feel right.  They recently released a comic-based zine, “Qualifications of Being,” about their journey of realizing they are trans and Two Spirit.  They are in post for a VR experience where the viewer rides alongside them on their drive to top surgery.  They continue to grow and explore their practice through the people they meet, and the stories that guide them.

Greeting 21: Aneurin and Kermie

Queer Out Here

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