Dissertation Work · Triptych
Organic Memory
(Triptych)
Organic Memory Triptych is a series of three interactive sonic sculptures that together constitute a research-creation inquiry into distributed creative intelligence, bodily knowledge, and the material life of sound. Each movement approaches sonicity from a different register (spatial, temporal, and haptic), enacting a practice the work names speculocultural technopoiesis: a speculative, culturally rooted making in which the technological object is never neutral but always already carries memory, relation, and care. Together, the sculptures ask what it might mean to listen with history, to make with matter, and to refuse the separation of the sensory from the political.
The Three Pieces
Part 1
Buffalo Soldier
A speculative narrative exploring the co-commodification of Black bodies and nature through tactility and material.
Part 2
Did Sun Ra Fear Cryosleep?
A speculative ritual and sonic sculpture exploring the transpiration of Black bodies across space-time.
Part 3
Don't Play with My Hair
A speculative organic synthesizer whose parameters arise from the structure, form, and materiality of hair.