“Bass” is an installation that McQueen created in 2024 featuring music focused on the low-end frequency of the double bass, with colored lights. It was inspired in part by the Middle Passage and sound in the hold of a ship.

“It’s about how sound is a liberation, in a way, to all of us.” #YUAlchemy

"Nobody remembers the evening she and her friends raised hell on 132nd Street or turned out Edmund’s Cellar or made such a beautiful noise during the riot that their screams and shouts were improvised music…
a jazz chorus."
- Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives…

cited in Intro remarks of #YUAlchemy

The 4th #YUAlchemy Lecture will be available for 2 weeks.

I highly recommend listening, and listening again. 😌📚

I'm also rereading the very first Lectures on "Borders…", esp. architect Dele Adeyemo's essay Thinking how arch. & infrastructures can condition sound.

Remember, Duke sale is on.

I'm thinking about sound and healing. #YUAlchemy

Artist Guadalupe Maravilla's 20 foot "Disease Thrower" sculpture is based on indigenous healing traditions.

It has a mat to lie down inside and a gong that can be struck for vibrational healing.

He made a bus too with a gong on the front.

"The catalog of bridges is a palimpsest...."

I was thinking about Firelei Báez's work, which is also, often, a palimpsest.

the D'Angelo clip 😣

such a loss

"the blues is the nucleus of everything"

So grateful for these remarks by Ola Mohammed.

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The 4th Alchemy Lecture is really resonating with me (pun intended).

The theme, Sound—at the Interregnum, is related to one of my key words for this year. I've been focusing and reading about sound and listening, ways of listening, etc.

So grateful for it.

#YUAlchemy

"The performance is all process, excess, labor…"

"the practice room as a heightened spiritual state"

"scores as visual works, as musical propositions, as suggestion of a direction"

"Black music as fugitive resonance"

"western notation can't hold Black music"

Immanuel Wilkins

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Fourth and final alchemist, saxophonist, composer and educator Immanuel Wilkins, whose debut album Omega was named the best jazz release of 2020 by the NYT.

Listening & learning about:

"Playing out", every note becomes a possibility...
Blues scale… the blue note
The idea of the vessel

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Brilliant.

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If you're not listening, I don't know what to tell you.

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Madeleine Thien's reading and meditation on the work of Mahmoud Darwish's poems is devastating and beautiful.

So grateful and heartbroken.

#YUAlchemy

Now listening to the 4th Annual Alchemy Lecture:
Sound—at the Interregnum.

First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science

listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion on Yellowknife land
#YUAlchemy

Now listening to the 4th Annual Alchemy Lecture:
Sound—at the Interregnum.

First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science

listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion drowning on Yellowknife
#YUAlchemy