Dropped into a new transmission, the audience tunes into an uncanny place: Welcome to Listening! We are capturing sound! In this final episode, memory and place ground us and take us elsewhere.

You can find the transcript for this episode here.

Last Audience: a performance podcast is created and performed by Yanira Castro with Sound Designer Erica Ricketts and Creative Producer Ariel Lembeck.

Episode Collaborators:

Episode 03 Notes:

Oral family history: Haydée Milagros Negroni Diaz, Lucien Castro Crocitto, Recording Assistant

Songs and poem in episode:

Y Tú, ¿Qué Has Hecho? by Eusebio Delfín

Crowd recording is in the Plaza del Quinto Centenario, Puerto Rico during #RickyRenuncia singing the revolutionary song by Lola Rodríguez de Tió, La Borinqueña.

Podcast Collaborators: 

Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez, Accessibility Artistry

Last Audience is a project of a canary torsi, a group of artists who create performance experiences together. It is inspired from a book of performance scores, Last Audience: a performance manual, made with the Museum of Contemporary Art/Chicago. 

Follow us on instagram: @acanarytorsi

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In this episode, participants return to a familiar sonic space, but why we are here and who we are with is undergoing a crisis of faith. Nothing is as it seems, and we may never come back. 

*Trigger Warning: This episode contains the sound of gunshots. If you would prefer to avoid this section, skip [14:48-14:56] 

You can find the transcript for this episode here. 

Last Audience: a performance podcast is created and performed by Yanira Castro with Sound Designer Erica Ricketts and Creative Producer Ariel Lembeck. 

Episode Collaborators: 

Lizbeth Roman, Performer & Composer of Agua que Vuelve with production, mixing and mastering by Rafa Rivera

Notes:

Speech recordings are of Puerto Rican Independentistas Lolita Lebrón and Pedro Albizu Campos.

Podcast Collaborators:

Last Audience is a project of a canary torsi, a group of artists who create performance experiences together. It is inspired from a book of performance scores, Last Audience: a performance manual, made with the Museum of Contemporary Art/Chicago. This podcast was made possible by a generous MacDowell Fellowship. 

Follow us on instagram: @acanarytorsi 

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In this debut episode, we welcome the public into a sonic, poetic world and introduce a host of characters. “A bottle into the cosmic ocean” said Carl Sagan about the Voyager’s Golden Record. We feel the same about this episode. 

You can find the transcript for this episode here.  

Last Audience: a performance podcast is created and performed by Yanira Castro with Sound Designer Erica Ricketts and Creative Producer Ariel Lembeck. 

Episode Collaborators: 

NEVE, Performer & Composer of Episode 01’s anthem, “Inflorescence” 

Stephan Moore, Composer of the music behind the choreographic action 

April Biggs, Accessibility Artistry & Transcription 

Podcast Collaborators: 

Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez, Accessibility Artistry 

Paul Knipper, Logo Design 

Marielys Burgos Melendez, Communicator & Digital Content Strategist 

Last Audience is a project of a canary torsi, a group of artists who create performance experiences together. It is inspired from a book of performance scores, Last Audience: a performance manual, made with the Museum of Contemporary Art/Chicago. This podcast was made possible by a generous MacDowell Fellowship. Follow us on instagram: @acanarytorsi