Sense/less is a multimedia, multi-sensory experience confronting the societal relationship to marginalized bodies. Incorporating sounds of the rainforest, electric cello, spoken word, and improvisation, Lalita’s work delves into themes of xenophobia, resistance, and the artist’s struggles with food, body image, and visibility. Through structured improvisation and layered soundscapes, Sense/less challenges the audience to reflect on the standards in which we hold other bodies/beings, and to be present with ourselves.

Embracing music as an augmentation of the visual act, Remote Viewing uses site specific composition to explore themes of distance, perspective, and the qualities of place that are perceived between the senses. Featuring an ensemble of Zekarias Thompson (Alto Sax), Benjamin Rodgers (Cello), Herb Diamant (Flute, Soprano Sax, Bassoon) and Laurent himself on pipe organ and synthesizer, Remote Viewing considers how space can be “measured in possibilities.”

A series of vignettes exploring Marela’s grief and identity in a vulnerable and intimate way, Qué Pena is crafted with a Buchla Music Easel synthesizer, live vocal performance, and text. The piece explores the complexity of grieving her father’s death in relation to her sorrow of not having gained fluency in Spanish. Her struggle and desire to continue learning a language, intertwined with her own shame and familial trauma, is laid bare. Qué Pena invites audiences to explore and attempt to heal parts of their own inner worlds that keep us from living to our full potential, by being witness to Marela’s own exploration.

Find out more about the 2024/25 residency here.

Audium’s Sound Residency Program is funded in part through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts & the Zellerbach Family Foundation.