The audio for this piece largely consists of rare found recordings of Sephardic folk tunes and prayers.  These folk tunes are particularly low quality and difficult to find writing on. The grainy quality of the recorded prayer and the omnipresent technical difficulties in this playback emphasize the inability to connect to my past without suspicion of recording technology and those who govern access to these materials. The piece also employs various sonic documentations of instances of sanctioned trespassing, and recordings of my own body– my fundamental electromagnetic frequency, my heartbeat, my breath, my voice.
This piece utilizes these sonic materials to highlight both the art of the sanctioned trespass as well as the difficulties in connecting to one's ancestors in a way that can only be situated in the temporal. These tunes and prayers unfortunately serve as the primary means for many of connecting to some jewish ancestry, as the minimal visual media documenting their existence was destroyed in the aftermath of WWII.  This sense of trespassing– due to my non-binary body and family history– is omnipresent; yet the sonospheres I occupy and closely listen to, both internal and external, enable me to connect, interact with, and influence my present as I presently exist and continue to exist into the future as a creation of generations of sanctioned trespassing through keen, deep, survival-oriented listening.

Prayer transgresses teleology and death– melodies of prayer permeate our collective past, present and future. Through juxtaposing these infinite melodies with teleological sounds such as my heartbeat and frequency, which will halt when I pass, I acknowledge the trespassing, the sanctioning, and the ephemerality of the body carried also in the infinity of prayer. These teleological vibrations (such as my fundamental frequency and heartbeat) also flow into my sonosphere. Praying is naming myself and my past into existence just as it is a simple plea of resonance into the future.

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On Air Fest 2021 Official Selects : vimeo.com/showcase/onairfest-officialselects

The Eaves - Sound on Writing : the-eaves.org/sound-on-writing/sanctioned-trespass-i/