The Comments
performance
15:00
2024

The Comments is the third installment in Carrie Fucile and Brenton Lim's Technology Trilogy. The core of this piece weaves selected YouTube comments with First Sound’s 2008 engineered playbacks of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville’s 1859 phonautogram of a diapason at 435 Hz. Fucile’s audio also integrates tuning forks, live improvised vocals, keyboard, and pre-recorded files of her own voice imitating the communication of insects. Lim’s live video is derived from his original block coding designed for the piece.

The performance documented here was presented at The Red Room in Baltimore, MD.