Audius

L.A. Paul writes about transformative experience: that you cannot know what it is like until you have lived it. Specifically, a catastrophic experience that is forced upon one can hijack one's system by its painful memories and 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 physically — 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, sound art, and experimental writing currently in development. 7-3-A: Sonic Mourning is the live enactment of 7-3-R, unfolding its fictional memory-scape through spatial sound, sculptural resonators, invented language, and live vocal performance. 7-3-R: One Day Flight is an experimental fiction following a character through one day of unstable memory, perception, and reality, forming the narrative and conceptual ground from which 7-3-A emerges. (...)