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Dissipation for Contraforte and Electronics

from Time Bomb by Helen Bledsoe and Lorelei Dowling

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1. Dissipation for Contraforte and electronics
Time Bomb: Dissipation is a work for live contraforte and tape (with possible live electronics). This is a simulated version, due to the circumstances of Covid-19. Melting permafrost releases massive amounts of carbon gasses, which dissipate into the atmosphere and contribute to the carbon cycle.

Dissipation does not attempt to directly sonify the carbon cycle of CO2 respiration, it is rather a capturing of the process at particular moments. The opening gestures can be seen as thrusting flames that ignite fossil fuels, stored in huge metallic tanks. The booming gives way to rhythm, which gives way to respiration and again ignition.

In addition to permafrost melting, other causes of CO2 emission find their way into the sonic landscape: industry, motors, humans. Eventually, what was buried under permafrost for eons comes to light, only to dissipate, erode or be sold (as is the case with fossil ivory, for example). These sounds were not recorded in the field, they were synthesized exclusively from the contraforte and the voice of the contraforte player. All audio material shares the same DNA, and is contained as a cycle is contained, with feedback systems, surging and plummeting relentlessly throughout.

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from Time Bomb, released July 18, 2021

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