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to swim in air: Singing Underwater

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singing underwater is a breath rising and falling beneath the surface, a high stakes game of keep up between toe-touches. virtuosic treading in soundwaves.

it is an episode from the in-progress mythosystem to swim in air, a modular extractable system of intermedial audiovisual performance works connected by a sub/conscious structure of perceptual exploration.


composed by: Louise Fristensky
Performed by Louise Fristensky & Megan Ihnen  
a concertized premier at UNT's Voertman Concert Hall, an at-home performance prepared during the 2020 quarantine which also appeared as part of the nief-norf 10th Anniversary Virtual Marathon Concert, Sunday 12 JULY 2020, and Megan's fantastic interpretation for the New Music on the Bayou 2023 Festival

False Landscapes: eternally nocturnally suburban

Eternally Nocturnally Suburban is a fixed media conceptual soundscape of an already semi- artificial environment, pushed into the uncanny valley. Derived from layered and cut iterations of Suburb Nighttime.mp3 from the Ben Burns Creative Commons Field Recordings collection.

this iteration features binaural mixing and is ideally experienced on headphones.

broadcast Friday 12 November 2021  ~11:40pm on As if radio...
AIR is a collaborative radio space created in response to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow from 31 October – 12 November 2021

old new blueps

old new blueps
smatterings of a life lived celestial-bodily stretched across the multiverse

​a collection of genre-dipped electronic works reliving the ephemera of remembered space

Tracks:
1. a sad sitcom from somewhere
2. i run on wizard time
3. where the air tastes of electricity
4. toes listening to mossy sand
5. cry with me, clumsy dancer
6. a flock of dust
7. next time on scoutro
8. roll credits sad sitcomber

composition & performance – bluflumingo 
mixing & mastering – Louise Fristensky
Album Art: Louise Fristensky

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released 4 March 2022

Cold Seeplógs: shit brigadoon

shit brigadoon 
harvesting quietly extrapolated gravity to swan about in happiness suspenders

an experimental audiovisual work which sits within the in-development mythosystem cold seeplógs.
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premiered 20 February 2023 at the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater and the University of North Texas
audio released February 7, 2021

synth, vocals, flute, bass & objects composition/performance – bluflumingo
mixing & mastering – Louise Fristensky

the emergency alert system is on alert
​and will be with you shortly

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the emergency alert system is on alert and will be with you shortly is a panicked meditation on the sonic geographies of continuous catastrophe. this piece specifically explores the timbral similarities between the mechanical air stream sirens iconically associated with many different systems of emergency alerts and the double bass' bow artifacts and ability to duplicate and fine-manipulate tones across its range.

to love a mountain made of walls

to love a mountain made of walls is a variable-rate generative audio/visual installation which adulates and ruminates on the intricacies and dialogues of boundaries, walls and layers.

!!FLASH WARNING!! *many elements of the visual component of this piece contain flash or flicker-type animation*  NB: this piece might be best suited for the beginning or end of a concert as it will allow people a more relaxed exit/entry if they need to leave the theater or arrive late to avoid the flash elements.
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This iteration was first installed as a ~16 min fixed cut prepared for the CEMI Graduate Symposium 29 October 2021, audiated throughout the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater (MEIT) 36.2 ambisonic dome and projected on all 5 screens arranged at equal height. ideal for long-form corner projection or immersive projection installation sites, but available in a shortened 20 minute iteration for theater projection.

the visuals generate data which controls aspects of the sounds, which in turn generate or alter visual elements, while other audio/visual elements remain independent.

this work is a passive/duration installation piece (probably via large screen or surface projection w/ sound), in that it would run for x time ( my current top has been 3 hours) or in a loop wherein people could either stay with the piece and view a cycle (about ~45 or so minutes at the current change rate) or they could pass by the piece.
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