PERFORMANCE

This spatial sound and song performance was originally composed for Audium’s 176 Speaker Sound Theater, to be experienced in complete darkness.

Performance Elements:
Vocals, Live Spatialization of Sound, Sub Frequency Oscillator, Live Sound generation and performance with 3 instruments designed for the show.
The Whisper Machine, The Instrument of Concrete, and an Electricity Synth.

COMPOSITION

1000 Whispers From Our Future is an auditory excursion that transcends the confines of our physicality and ascends listeners into the waves of the infinite. It pulls from Pat Mesiti-Miller’s near-decade of work inside California prisons, and features the sounds of the physical structures of incarceration, the sounds of life inside them, and the power of our collective imagination and spirit.

Central to the piece is a collection of whispers recorded during a series of community visioning events where participants were asked to share their visions of a new world.

The whispers become guides as they float over gritty textures, materialize, and expand before returning to the echoic ether.

This project examines the world we’ve inherited, most notably the US carceral system, its connection to global struggles for liberation, and the unwavering desire for the human spirit to be free.

1000 Whispers explores the abolitionist principle:
as we dismantle systems of harm and oppression, we must also imagine new worlds and ways of being, and join in building them together.

Woven together through experimental sound and song, this composition guides the listener through three realms: The Realm of the Concrete, The Realm of Transcendence, and The Realm of Spirit