Between Dying and Death Is a Hum

This work documents the hum that is registered through attention to coexistence between a body and landscape condemned. Over four weeks I will undertake eight hours of coastal deep listening practices in which I audio narrate the minute ways in which my disabled body and this fraught environment move in mutual disregard. Tied to climatic crisis and colonial invasion, the ocean where this work takes place is doubly haunted by personal trauma and grief. Over the residency I attune myself to the expansiveness of relations that doom submerges, to find where intersections of life might be tended. As a person with auditory processing disorder, it is vital to me that this work is accessible. The piece is designed in line with WCAG 2.1 success criterion (1.2.1/1.2.3) for audio description: the narrative in the work functions as a description of the sounds from field recordings and the musical score; I also work with low frequencies to make the listening more tactile. A written transcript of the audio is provided next to the audio player and will be open captioned. If budget permits, I will provide ASL interpretation.