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James T. Green
You walk into your bedroom and you find a crumpled piece of paper under the bed. You open the sheet of paper and see it's folded into 6 quadrants. There's a headphone jack in the corner of the page. You get your headphones out of your bag, plug it in, and realize what you've discovered, a collaborative zine by James T. Green and friends.
What is a home when objects are not present? Jemma meditates on the routines and loops that invisibly cement the identity of a brand new place.
Created for Earlid.
Full Transcript:
[deep group exhale between four people]
[exhales begin rhythmically moving faster in BPM]
I just got out of a recording session
for one of the podcasts I produce, and uh, the host was talking to musician who plays a lot with loops.
[lip smack] And, um, they were talking about the power of looping and, she said this phrase in the context, um, of their conversation –– she said, um, you know, I'm captivated by the power of
transformation through repetition.
And, it jumped out to me, and I think the thing, a thing,
I love very much about home is, transformation through repetition.
[mirrored exhales between four people turn into giggles]
How I change, you change, the house changes, through [lip smack] the micro and macro daily acts of repetition.
Toothbrush goes in holder, milk inside of door;
Grinding the coffee, put it back in the cabinet;
Shoes under the bench, chair pushed under the table;
Opening the curtains in the morning, closing the curtains at night or in the summer;
Closing the curtains during the day and opening them at night.
And how all these little acts, um [lip smack], become, part of us, and part of the map of this house.
I don't have that map yet, I just moved into my home. And so, I'm map making right now, like, I'm inventing in real time, um, in some way I'm projecting uh, what are my transformations going to be through repetition? Um, what acts am I going to repeat?
And I'm making that map by putting certain objects in certain places, um, and I'll probably going to move them a bunch of times, but at a certain point they'll kind of settle into place.
And um…and then I'll really have a map, and it will repeat, and it'll cycle, and it will loop and it will become me, and I'll become the loop inside my home.
A commission for Unfinished.
Written, directed, produced, sound designed, mixed and mastered by James T. Green.
Edited by Afi Yellow-Duke, Christina Djossa, and Benjamen Walker.
Derrick is played by James T. Green
Derrick’s friend is played by Zakiya Gibbons.
The Block Chorus was played by Jada Green and DeVante Green.
The Block Charlatan is played by James Bennett II.
"There have always been ghosts in the machine." A collaboration conceived by Olivia Bradley-Skill.
Hot cheeto dust on the collar of a short sleeve jcrew shirt. A NPC in someone else’s narrative
Years ago, a cardiologist insisted I have a loop recorder installed in my chest. The purpose was to monitor my heart. Little did they know, they created an android. This piece meditates on the history of Black bodies as vessels of experimentation, and how the melding of tech and self has a longer history than one might imagine.
The piece is titled PMHx, a medical acronym for Patient Medical History. It originally aired on BBC Radio 4’s Shortcuts.
A special thanks to C’ne Rohlsen, Axel Kacoutié, C.C. Paschal, Cher Vincent, Zakiya Gibbons, and Veralyn Williams for editorial and artistic guidance.
Emily Shaw is a San Francisco-based podcast producer and consultant. Find out more at www.emilyshawcreates.com, and follow Emily @emilyshawcreates (Instagram) and @emshawcreates (Twitter).
Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.
Emily Shaw is a San Francisco-based podcast producer and consultant. Find out more at www.emilyshawcreates.com, and follow Emily @emilyshawcreates (Instagram) and @emshawcreates (Twitter).
Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.
Emily Shaw is a San Francisco-based podcast producer and consultant. Find out more at www.emilyshawcreates.com, and follow Emily @emilyshawcreates (Instagram) and @emshawcreates (Twitter).
Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.
Ray Pang is a Boston-based Audio Producer. Find out more by following Ray on Twitter @pangray.
Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.
Ray Pang is a Boston-based Audio Producer. Find out more by following Ray on Twitter @pangray.
Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.
Ray Pang is a Boston-based Audio Producer. Find out more by following Ray on Twitter @pangray.
Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.
Nicki Stein makes radio in Richmond, VA. You can hear more of her work at nickistein.com.
Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.
Nieves Gruneiro is an artist and educator based in eastern Pennsylvania. Her work explores immersion, presence and perception using a variety of media. For more information please visit: cachita.io.
Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.
Cinthia Pimentel (sher/her) is a storyteller, podcast host & audio producer. She started her podcast journey by co-hosting and co-producing a podcast called Bag Ladiez, all about baggage and mental health. As a fellow at Pineapple Street Media, she worked on different podcast series such as No Man’s Land before joining the team at Wonder Media Network. She loves horror and all forms of science fiction. Born, and raised in the best city in the world: The Bronx.
Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.
You can find Palace on instagram @planet.pal and on soundcloud at soundcloud.com/palaces-2.
Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.
You can find Palace on instagram @planet.pal and on soundcloud at soundcloud.com/palaces-2.
Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.
You can find Palace on instagram @planet.pal and on soundcloud at soundcloud.com/palaces-2.
Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.
Stepfanie Aguilar is an audio producer/shaper based in a California desert. Connect with her on www.stepfaguilar.com.
Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.
Stepfanie Aguilar is an audio producer/shaper based in a California desert. Connect with her on www.stepfaguilar.com.
Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.
Stepfanie Aguilar is an audio producer/shaper based in a California desert. Connect with her on www.stepfaguilar.com.
Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.
Kristine White is a visual, performance, and audio artist based in Toronto, Canada. Her Instagram is @kristineshirley_.
Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.
an ode to routine, rhythm and repetition bounded by the seasons
created in partnership with audio playground
"Having high visibility is important for building trust with program participants and the community. Repeat visibility can be achieved through radio, television, posters, or through faith-based organizations or community events."
A drifting mind ruled supreme.
Featuring memos by Chiquita Paschal and Imran Ali Malik.
A meditation on digital ownership, and the land grab of ideas. Created in collaboration with Audio Playground.
Parked between the bridges
A disabled carousel waits in view, begging for action
The shadows of myself dissolve into the ice in the grounds I brought with me
The polar pieces of myself wade gently in the east river
Blackness, freedom, and cycling feel connected. In a country where we aren’t free, bikes allow us to take freedom back, using our minds and bodies to take us wherever we want to go.
That’s why being at the Mind Body Results BLM protest felt like a gumbo of this moment.
You can view and read the full photo essay here.
this morning, I woke with a composition in my head based on a sample from “Jupiter” from The Marias…here’s the making of it, from capturing the sample, to building the composition around it, to engineering the sounds, to programming the drums, to the final bounce.
what does it mean to leave your garden behind? featuring jemma, marcus, chad, and margot.
The initial demo I created of the final short documentary, “Maslow” that was aired on BBC shortcuts a couple weeks ago. Here is a link to listen to the final version.
Ashley said the hold music for Nordstrom is great, and I trust her taste in music, so I listened for myself
Inspired by a prompt from Ari Mejia, the three of us (Ari, Erisa Apantaku, and myself) created three pieces under our interpretation of the exquisite corpse method of collage art-making.
Ariana Martinez created an accompanied digital zine to view while listening to the pieces, which can be downloaded here.
“if you have it, you just waltz effortlessly in the rooms you want to be in”
~ thanks to julia furlan, alex laughlin, elena fernandez collins, sandhya dirks, b.a. parker, molly woodstock, and ariana martinez.
so much of this time
ocean breeze
lying next to you
fingertips like trees
heating pad inbetween
first snow
let it go
having a panic attack in a store, trying to calm the anger, it creeping back up until it can no longer be contained and having to leave the store, blaming everyone but myself, realizing the issue, taking a walk to lower my heart rate
take one minute.
recognize what is happening.
allow life to be just as it is.
investigate inner experience.
non-identification.
a relationship slowly unravels
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special thanks to the fall 2019 “made in ny” podcasting class, james kim, ari mejia, and ashley lusk
“Life is much more than an instrument, to be optimized ... a social validation feedback loop.”
"When she was younger, 30-year-old Ayesha McGowan looked up to African-American sports heroes like Venus and Serena Williams, Florence Griffith Joyner and Jackie Joyner-Kersee. But she never saw female African-American cyclists."
"COIN COIN explores how, when broken down into the most minute details, new meanings arise beyond the surface levels of one-dimensional human acceptance, generally attached to shades of difference, and fear of the unknown."
"her accomplishments set the stage for my success, and through players like myself and Serena and many others to come, her legacy will live on"
made in the air from brooklyn to chicago ~ an anticipation of tough holiday conversations in late decembers
i didn’t think it would happen this soon but life finds a way of reminding
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contains a sample of muna mire performing at jones beach
when underground, no one knows what tears sound like, too masked by bass
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contains a sample of "baianá" by barbatuques
the morning after, the sun is brighter than i remember
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contains a sample of “PS2” by Litany
YOU MADE IT! I'M SO HAPPY YOU'RE HERE! I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU IN SO LONG, GIMME A HUG
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features a sample of “PS2 by litany”
there’s an after party in space, you should head there before the busses stop running for the night
when you awake, you see stars and next thing you know its 12am and the medication is no longer working