Is Love Badness?

An experiment in form: a work of sound composed through field recordings, voice messages, and an essay written from lived experience.

Fragments of speech, ambient noise, and lived memory move together here. Composed from lived experience, the piece turns toward harm, desire, rage, and repair as forces felt in the body. Voices, weather, static, and thought sit beside each other as components of intra-action—where no sound stands alone and each is felt in the body of the listener through its relation to others.

Therefore, this experiment challenges the listener to stay attentive within a post-essay structure, attuning themselves to new possibilities in listening and relation. 

This episode asks for patience with overlap and the willingness to stay in discomfort without avoiding it. Best heard with time, through speakers or headphones, without rushing to a conclusion

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Collected sounds from this episode come from;

Field recordings of woodland sounds and by highway fields during my Volcano Road Trip after my father's funeral last spring

Voice Messages from friends Karlota, Nancy, and Clay

Psalms sung by Rabbi Shefa Gold

An explanation of Karen Barad’s theories of intra-action and agential realism from the Leverhulme Institute I | Session II | Close Reading Karen Barad | Feb 2014

Invocation of PGM VII.862--918, "the Lunar Spell of Klaudianos and the ritual of heaven and the north star"

Noise and Beats produced, reduced, and abstracted by V

Essay from end of episode can be read in full on the Autobiography of a Halfling blog