Pain is built around the untreated voice of Lata Mani reading a chapter from her book, Interleaves. The piece recomposes the text as a sonic experience that sensorially explores and augments its rethinking of pain. Pain is a “musical” composition of generated sounds and field recordings of nature. 

Lata Mani is a writer who occasionally experiments with image and sound. www.latamani.com

Sindhu Thirumalaisamy is an artist and filmmaker based in Bangalore, India. www.xindhu.weebly.com

Pain is downloadable and shareable under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license.

Pain Lata Mani & Sindhu Thirumalaisamy (2015)

Lata Mani reads a chapter from her book Interleaves: Rumination on Illness and Spiritual Life. 
Lata is a writer who occasionally experiments with image and sound. www.latamani.com

Anger Meditation is downloadable and shareable under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license.

Anger Meditation (2001)

Lata Mani reads Auto-Biography, the opening chapter of Interleaves.

Lata Mani Interleaves Auto-Biography

Welcome to our 1st complete podcast -  a 15-minute documentary.

What does a Mexican artist studying space have in common with a former Vietnamese refugee who calls Canada home?  Listen to our audio feature where the journey of space and a fleeing human intersect and we arrive together in one destination: the Empire of Dreams.

We explore human movement which is triggered by fear and hope -- it is a venture into the unknown.

Thanks to artist Nahum Mantra and writer Kim Thuy for their beautiful words and expressions. And to all the participants for their contribution. 

NOTE:  we also took a section of an interview Spencer Wells,  an anthropologist/geneticist with the National Genographic project, did with the Red Cedar Environmental Institute.

FEATURE:  EOD - An introductory journey with a space artist & a refugee writer.

Happy Birthday was created by playing with fragments read from a visualisation of the word Happy Birthday, and a PD patch called "My Voice Means" both made by Ron Herrema. The experiment was presented at SPUR residency at Tate Britain in January 2015 as part of the Radio City project. It was broadcast through the gallery radio system and later SPUR invited me to exhibit online this work together with the visual work of Sophy Alda. Here I am quoting the perception of my work by Sophy Alda:  "Yours as a piece to be broadcast amongst other readings through the gallery radio system, and mine as a visual response to the project.
Your piece to me seems to be a breaking up of and recontextualization of a familiar pattern of syllables (one with some degree of individual weight through memory in English speakers) presented out of order and repetitively to create an evocative soundscape verging on the hypnotic.

The presentation of this through a multi space and multi speaker broadcast system seems particularly effective as it echoes the broken up nature of the sound but also facilitates the intimate consumption of it: it is up to the consumer to decide how near or far they are from the the sound and how much attention they pay to it, their experience changing as they move through the space in which it is being broadcast.

This seems relevant in the gallery space as relayed through the gallery radio system, but also in the browser space which is almost always accessed intentionally and with autonomy. The work can be experienced by any number of people broken up between places and although their individual experiences can still be intercepted by those nearby they retain a sense of real intimacy." Here a link to our full exchange: http://www.spurspurspur.org/2015/03/15/internal-broadcast-in-conversation/

Happy Birthday [fragmented]

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