Tag: stethoscope
All Terrain #11
Sound heard: brushing against texture of hair
Name of track: Hair_texture15.07.2020
(Listen With Headphones)
Stethoscope contact: variable pressure on to and round head
15.07.2020
Bristol UK (Latitude 51.4690527°, Longitude -2.5829104°.)
Accompanying text from distant place:
A note to my black sistahs
My hair doesn’t need to be told to relax…
or need to be pressed, or weakened
So that it can fly in the wind
Or be flung over the shoulder
I’d rather carry the weight
Like a boulder
Means I’m strong enough
Bold enough
To walk along with my black sisters
Queens of Kemet
I feel the need to connect
With these roots
Rachel Registe
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012 at 9:20 AM
Dominican Republic (Latitude 18.7357 °N, Longitude 70.1627 °W.)
Reference: POEM: A note to my black sistahs
(accessed online 15.07.2020)
All Terrain #9
Sound heard: ligaments on spine, footfalls, an airplane and room sounds.
Name of track: Walking mechanics 23.06
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Stethoscope contact: base of spine
23.06.2020
Bristol UK (Latitude 51.4690527°, Longitude 2.5829104°.)
Accompanying text from distant place:
“I believe that in the coming hours we will have to consider the possibility of a complete ban on outdoor activities,” Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora told state broadcaster RAI.
The government lockdown banned all non-essential travel, but allowed people to take solitary daily exercise, if needed. Looking to enforce the restrictions, police have stopped more than one million people over the past week and booked almost 43,000 for violating the rules, the interior ministry said.
“If the call to stay at home is not heeded, we will be forced to impose an absolute ban,” he said. (Yara Nardi)
18.03.2020
Bergamo North Italy (Latitude 45.8578° N, Longitude 9.8820° E.)
Reference:
Accessed online 23.06.2020
All Terrain #8
All Terrain #8
Sound heard: friction of stethoscope drawn along skin
Name of track: Skin surface tension15.06.
Stethoscope contact: left ankle and top of foot
(Listen With Headphones)
15.06.2020
Bristol UK (Latitude 51.4690527°, Longitude 2.5829104°.)
Accompanying text from distant place:
Pampaputi – (For Whitening)
You become obsessed
with papaya soap.
12 years old.
Pampaputi,
they say.
for your armpits.
for your elbows.
for your knees.
for your…
body.
“Kung maputi ka lang,”
(if only).
You become obsessed
with hiding.
Arms in long sweaters (from the sun)
Wide brim hats (from the sun)
Your whole body (from the look in their eyes,
the taunting smiles, and the titas with papaya).
“Kung ‘di ka lang maitim”
(if only).
You become weary.
(of orange soap)
21 years old.
“Masyado kang nasa labas! Umiitim ka na!”
(tama na)
Eyebrows raised,
hands poised to push away,
face turned to the side,
and you say
“What’s so wrong about me?”
Eyes shut,
hands on your skin,
“pampaputi”
becomes
“para sa puti”.
Because even here,
your brown skin,
would be so much better,
would be so much nicer,
would be so much
(if only)
you were maputi.
– f.d
by Nicki Minaj
Saint James Trinidad (10.6744° N, 61.5326° W)
Reference:
https://powerpoetry.org/poems/pampaputi-whitening
(accessed on line 15.06.2020)
All Terrain #3
Sound heard: slow breath while working and moving
Name of track: Breath Near Ear 19.05
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Stethoscope contact:held under ear
19.05.2020
Bristol UK (Latitude 51.4690527°, Longitude -2.5829104°.)
Accompanying text from distant place:
“Catch the wind in your mouth. Release it at a later time.”(Ronsen. J)
2012
Chicago USA (Latitude 41.8781°, Longitude -87.6298°.)
Reference:
Josh Ronsen – The Long and Windy Road. Found in, The Windy Scores: 2012. Pub.FluxFest Chicago2012, p.63