Multiple Selves

Multiple Selves is a performance piece of three vocalists mimicking sounds generated by a text-to-speech application created by the artist. The text-to-speech application is based on the International Phonetic Alphabet of English words. This project aims to create computer-generated voices that can suggest the possibility of non-gendered voices. The syllables are exaggerated by randomly alternating the pitch, length and tone of the pronunciations. There are three songs in this project titled "Glitch Ghosts," "Glitch is Error," and "Ghost Echoes." Songs were generated by typing some text from the artist and some quotations from Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism (2020).

Xeno walk

Xeno Walk is a series of Augmented Reality audio walks with the voices and sound works of activists and sound producers who embrace the collage as a tool of aural exploration. The walks feature the artworks of #VIVAS, a Latin America-based collective producing sound works from field recordings of social demonstrations, Viv Corringham’s Shadow Walks, and voices of members of Collage Féministes & Collages Féminicides Montréal and Paris. The walk’s sound design takes the form of an audio collage mixing their soundtracks and interviews. 

 The audio is activated through the listener’s walk, using cellphone geolocation to trigger the sounds along the selected routes. In these walks, the listener will hear the interviews in Spanish, English, and French. The listener can choose to experience this walk using headphones; however, this AR project is meant to be heard as a collective soundwalk with two or more persons. 

The sonic walk is located at the intersection of Van Horne Skatepark and Champs des possibles in connection with wheat-paste phrases responding to #Vivas’ and Corringham’s works regarding gender, sound, space, and creative inclusion. 

listen to black women (again)

listen to Black women (again) is a sonic collage of Black womens’ voices. it is a return to and revision of a previous work entitled listen to Black women, an arrangement of  intimate voice notes from friends and family. this new edition is composed of found sounds sourced online from interviews and talks by more broadly known Black women, including Amara La Negra, Rihanna, Azealia Banks, Jully Black, Angela Davis and Keke Palmer. the original soundscape grew from a simple invitation by the artist to fellow Black women: record yourself talking to me about talking. the addition of Black women with far greater visibility highlights who shared refrain, concerns and woes suggests that some things don’t change no matter your platform, wealth or reach. this work, its contents and title, intend to interrogate the listener and their relationships to Black women: do you listen to Black women? when last? how do/did you engage? these sounds ask for your reflection in combination with the text transmission “c’est qui le cannibale?”, the installation gives the listener nowhere to look but inwards to ponder a declaration negating the voracious consumption of Black women in the hopes that their next exchange with a Black woman, whether familiar or famous, will shift towards her liberation.

lands to travel through

lands to travel through is a series of audio performances by seth cardinal dodginghorse based around their memories and broken connection to Tsuut’ina land.