Audius

7-3 = 

7-3-A

7-3-R

7-3-B

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(ongoing-forthcoming)

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A transdisciplinary trilogy, a single research body across multiple forms, a structural language enacts grief as embodied epistemic inference through an experiment fiction book (7-3-R) and spatially anchored Sonic Mourning (7-3-A). ​​​​

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Further description of this work:

L.A. Paul writes about transformative experience: that you cannot know what it is like until you have lived it. Specifically, I am interested in the catastrophic experience that is forced upon one, where the system is hijacked by painful memories and even the condition to choose rationally breaks. From inside that collapse emerges a particular desire: I wish I do not remember; I wished I had acted differently, to reverse the engine, if only I had known how. It is from this position that the research asks how the body can consciously intervene in its own reconstructive process, and how the structural conditions — spatial, sonic, material and linguistic — make that intervention possible through artistic practice?

​The theoretical questions of this research are grounded in the 7-3 Trilogy, an expanded work across live performance, spatial sound, and experimental writing currently in development.

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7-3-A: Sonic Mourning is the live performance component, a system in which invented vocal language inhabits and enacts a constructed fictional memory landscape built from psychoacoustic spatial sound and sculptural resonators. The central compositional and theoretical question it generates is: what is the relationship between the constructed fictional memory-scape and the first-person enactor's live real-time vocal presence? The enactor is simultaneously the author of the fiction and the body inside it, the one who lost, the one who reconstructs, and the one who inhabits the imagined alternative.

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7-3-R is the experimental fiction component, a book whose central character has only one day of memory, embedded in a Bayesian experiment, experiencing a forced collapse of temporal experience, mental time travel, and dreams becoming realities. 7-3-R inhabits the structural impossibility and navigates what remains of identity and self when the updating mechanism is permanently broken.

Together they form the living artistic context within which the theoretical research is situated.

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