Whirlwind is sonic collaboration on voice notes over voice notes, temporally and geographically displaced but close enough to resonate. word-dense, thought-dense, sound-dense in some areas and dispersed, drafty in others. reading, reading aloud, a conversational hum, a background hum in and out of conversation, catching some drift, a response to the 2024 Sonic Acts festival. Whirlwind asks, after da Silva and Neuman’s Soot Breath // Corpus Infinitum, how can one be a body but also an echo? Through our correspondence and collaboration, sonic entanglements and thinking tangents, embodied echoes and echoing bodies, we have found ourselves beside the question. We are interested in furthering our paraontological play through Thought that aims to offset the strains of Western knowledge production through straying, through the stray thought as entangled drift. We are interested in how sound and thought, beside each other, beside themselves, provide a means and mode for st(r)aying in relation.
would-wind is a collective of two friends who became friends during the 2024 Sonic Acts Biennial. Otis Haize Thomet is a composer and improviser, who puts things side by side. Jenna Peng is a writer and not a writer. Discomposing, she is often beside herself. They more or less catch the other’s drift.