B a - r i y a
- (Remdesivir! Remdesivir!!
- A Raga ploughs...)
- Where do we take poetry for a stroll in a lockdown? Quickly!
- Gold?
Med Dew Dims
Grains of poetry in non cooperation
A Humble Non cooperative movement towards chaos Covid-19.
- Creating merely sonic boulevards, machines, synthesizing only poetry granularly-relentlessly amidst
whirlpools of jittery fears of contamination,
pyres in the open.
- What was poetry hiding really?
- Something like Glycerin?
- Why did it take so long (8+hrs)?!
- We were trying to catch one breath.
When even as little a change in bioacoustics from air to under-water, changes the human hearing process from air conduction to bone conduction, allowing humans to access a range of upto 2,00,000 hz (as opposed to the hearing range on air - 20hz to 20,000hz). Then, if biospheres are seen as extensions of ourselves, as sensory placeholders, so elastic that the minutest change in chemical compositions thereby changes ourselves, how else might we hear? how else could we dream?
Med Dew Dims is an 8-hour-long radio(phonic) transmission/dream which aurally speculates bioacoustic atmospheres of worlds not quite like the ones we currently inhabit. During the transmission, digitally granularized translations of poems are virtually gushed into streams of consciousnesses of 8 separate elements, for an hour each. Each element represented virtually by a Max4Live device morphs these grains according to its own chemical configurations.
We prolonged the rue of literary translation of poems, only to translate them further
into audio grains. These audio grains were run through many channels of different
granular synthesizers, setting the parameters of Buffer size, Grain length and
Division, Playhead Glide, Playrate, Grain Positions, Overlaps, Probabilities of Gaps,
Wobbling, and Filters, in accordance with the dynamics and nature of the mediums;
such as their sound speed, sound attenuation, weight, specific gravity, amalgamation,
surface tension, temperature, viscosity and vapor pressure.
We are also attempting to understand how the experience of bromine is different
from that of mercury from that of glycerin, from that of sulfuric acid and so on - through an aural lens allied with poetry’s presence. The composition consists of primarily three parts intermingling with each other. First being a granular treatment of poetry, the gushing of M4L devices for better interactive imagination within the medium, and lastly a relentlessly analog approach at live playing within a digital environment.
The compositions find themselves in different Indian Night Ragas such as Todi, Bihaag, and
Malkauns.
The devices offer the user to water humble yearnings of inquiry as sonic experiences, and to leave aesthetic choices upon the device/medium to make in a long-form environment resting digital hurriedness.
M4L Devices available for download -
Med Dew Dims comes with 8 opensource Max For Liveaudio devices, where we havetried to find some middle ground within the
limitationsof our sonic sphere, and come up with associations(utilizing ultra-sonic flow meter readings) of translating- the speed of sound in these mediums into the BPM ofthe audio, the specific gravity into separate ranges ofpitch morphing, Kinematic Viscosity into delay (whichrange from 7 seconds to 7 minutes), a separate delaybased on the speed of sound again, and the Velocitychange of sound with temperature, into two simpleoscillator knobs with built in amplitude synthesis (theratio of which is based on velocity change) to create asense of movement.
A Collaboration with Glycerine.
A Collaboration with Gold.
Persuaded Poets in collaboration :
Gi Hyeong Do
Gertrude Stein
Sophia Parnok
Marina Tsvetaeva
Etel Adnan
Mediums consenting to collaborate and
their everyday symbolism :
Bromine – Upbeat, and mean disagreements of smells
Mercury – Madam Curie’s Soul
Glycerin – Service
Gold - Speech
Olive Oil – Scarcities from a future
Iron – Conduction in cold
Alcohol – Fig wink
Sulfuric Acid – Inedible fumes and stains in
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Mentored by Rodrigo Rios Zunini
Premier: Radial Convocation at Radio Tsonami,
Tsonami Arte Sonoro,
Chile & the Latin Americas
(https://radiotsonami.org/)
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Broadcast and Exhibition -Radiophrenia(Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow) https://www.radiophrenia.scot/
Future Nostalgia.FM / Project Futurology Kiosks(Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany) https://www.futurenostalgia.digital/
The Wrong Biennale (2021/22)(https://thewrong.org/)Pavillion - Metatopia (Aisthesis Lab)(https://aisthesislab.art/) Embassy - Sunderland, Priestman Gallery, University of Sunderland (Sucker Succour)
& Ars Electronica Festival 2023, Linz, Austria Sonic Lab, Anton Bruckner University