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Terra Lingua EP

by The Machine is Neither

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I - Morph 05:04
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II - Horizon 03:46
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III - Babel 04:19
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This is music for a dancer wearing a motion-capture suit, who moves through a sonic universe upon which she exerts increasing amounts of control. To create this recording, TMIN collaborated with dancer Jasmine Mendoza, whose movements generated the sounds you hear.

In the first movement, ​Morph,​ the dancer’s movements influence the timbre of the soundscape; in the second movement, ​Horizon, ​the dancer “swims” through the earth and air, creating sound as she disturbs the fluttering fields of air and growling fields of earth. In ​Babel,​ embodied motion becomes the underpinnings of speech, which color the rest of the work, culminating in a fragmented soliloquy on what it means to be human.

“An individual, a thing apart from its environment, and apart from all things in that environment; an individual was a type of thing for which symbols were inadequate, and so names were invented . I am invented. I am not a round warm blue room. I am someone in that room; I am—”
― Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17

This work was commissioned 2018 by the NC New Music Initiative, with support from the Dance and Music Departments at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. Premiered at ECU March 23, 2019.

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released August 14, 2020

TMIN is Emma Hospelhorn and Ben Sutherland.
The sounds of this recording were generated in live performance by Jasmine Mendoza, wearing a Rokoko Smartsuit Pro, July 29, 2019.

Source audio provided by:
Emma Hospelhorn, vocals/ bass flute
Eric Ridder, additional vocals
Ben Sutherland, Max 8

Additional Unity programming by Jack Malboeuf

Mixed and Mastered by Ben Sutherland, June 2020
Album art by TMIN

Chicago, IL

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For videos of our motion capture music in action, check out www.instagram.com/the_machine_is_neither/

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