we continue to sustain ourselves, by alejandro t. acierto

we continue to sustain ourselves

by alejandro t. acierto

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	1.	Part I 06:26
	2.	Part II 12:00
	3.	Part III 10:37
	4.	Part IV 09:19
	5.	Part V 15:54

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we continue to sustain ourselves is an hour-long work for two contrabass clarinets, viola, percussion, and interactive media. Working with feedback as a broadly defined phenomenon, this work becomes a way to devise other forms of relation and being where our bodies intersect, play, and intervene on and with technological systems built as extensions of ourselves. A meditation for queers of color, feedback becomes a metaphor that articulates our orientations as it registers our proximities. It reveals itself in the space between the input and output and overwhelms us with a trace of what has always existed. Here, we are made present in the recognition of our past and in the insistence of our continuation -the ongoing loop where the past is amplified until it’s not, where the future is held under the conditions of space, and where the present is contingent on the then and there. For feedback that was previously always avoided, hushed, and excluded from audio systems, we envision its presence as a reminder to sustain our own bodies and ourselves. Though noisy in its recurrence, this feedback offers us a moment of refuge, a moment of forever, a moment of always.

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released July 20, 2021

live performance on 27 September 2019 at Elastic, Chicago for the Elastro Series
performed by alejandro t. acierto, contrabass clarinet, electronics, and media
Ammie Brod, viola
Zachary Good, contrabass clarinet
Ryan Packard, live feedback, percussion, and objects

composed by alejandro t. acierto, 2019
recording and video by Dan Nichols
postproduction compositing and mastering by Aphorism Studios

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