Constellations

This piece distorts language in a way that feels simultaneously playful in

its musicality, while also awkward and violent. It's so true to the way

language and language barriers fail and frustrate us. We loved listening a

couple times in a row, sinking into the jarring cadence of the reader's

cropped syllables.

“I was driving down the 401 which I normally find to be very uninspiring,

but then I was thinking about all the breakthrough moments I've had in

cars, whether its been me alone thinking of something and coming to a

conclusion, or being on a road trip with someone else and us having our

first real bonding moment or big fight. And I was thinking about how that's

kind of like therapy.”

“Back in the 80's I sneak-watched a TV movie with highly disturbing content

(about nuclear war) and it's been passively haunting me ever since. I

discovered a lot of my friends had the same experience with this movie, and

are also still lightly traumatized, so asked them all about it.”

“Time functions asymmetrically in a doctor's waiting room. Our bodies keep

their own time, which is rarely calibrated to half hour appointments, and

we feel we're often left waiting. The smallest procedure can stretch to

fill a day, and a year on waiting list, a lifetime. No Event is a plastic

moment in a waiting room.”

“OTML10YOD is an audio short story that charts the familiar sequences of

romantic relationships. It stems from a personal experience, but embraces

common feelings of closeness, connection, difficulty, love and loss. Let

your mind wonder and project how you will.”

“The comparison between migraine and tsunamis comes from how I think about

my own experiences. Migraines are different for everyone, but in my case

there are a couple of warning signs that I tend to get in the hours or days

before an attack. They are things like horrible dry mouth, I can’t stop

yawning and become very depressive. I think about them as the ocean

drawback that can happen before a tsunami.”

“Blinking is about a feeling anyone who's ever lived the experience of

emigration will recognize. That of returning to your native country to find

that what you see is different, sometimes clearer and sharper than it ever

was while you were there. It's also about a sense of loss, rootlessness,

and searching.”

“Lazaro's Dream is an audio walk that mixes history and fiction into a

surreal dreamscape and guides listeners through the Danforth area in

Toronto, Ontario. Press play and enter a character's dream. We use Michael

Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion as inspiration and include lines from the

text which are voiced by the author.”

constellations illuminates audio work from a community of international artists craving + making experimental work that floats beyond the borders of radio and podcasting