Last Audience

Dropped into a new transmission, the audience tunes into an uncanny place: Welcome to Listening! We are capturing sound! In this final episode, memory and place ground us and take us elsewhere. You can find the transcript for this episode here. Last Audience: a performance podcast is created and performed by Yanira Castro with Sound Designer Erica Ricketts and Creative Producer Ariel Lembeck. Episode Collaborators: Amir Hall, Performer of The Satyrics SNATCH ATTACK, I am a Human Now MadDaddy MayHammhmm (Madison Krekel), Vox Frankie Jane Painful (Isaiah Singer), Guitar Agent Boom (Crystal Jurado), Bass Morgue-an Screamin' (Konrad Payne), Drums Vocals recorded by Morgan Orion. Produced and R, recorded by Rowan Brind at Behind the Curtains Media. Mixed and Mastered by Michael Abiuso at Behind the Curtains Media. Michael Rodríguez, Jr., Performer, Bomba Holandé (Barilles de Bomba, cua and maraca)  Episode 03 Notes: Oral family history: Haydée Milagros Negroni Diaz, Lucien Castro Crocitto, Recording Assistant Songs and poem in episode: Y Tú, ¿Qué Has Hecho? by Eusebio Delfín Yauco, Pueblo Perfumado by José Gordils Negroni En Mi Viejo San Juan by Noel Estrada Crowd recording is in the Plaza del Quinto Centenario, Puerto Rico during #RickyRenuncia singing the revolutionary song by Lola Rodríguez de Tió, La Borinqueña. Podcast Collaborators:  Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez, Accessibility Artistry April Biggs, Accessibility Artistry & Transcription Andrew Chapman, Transcript Ep 02 and Ep 03 Paul Knipper, Logo Design Last Audience is a project of a canary torsi, a group of artists who create performance experiences together. It is inspired from a book of performance scores, Last Audience: a performance manual, made with the Museum of Contemporary Art/Chicago.  Follow us on instagram: @acanarytorsi Tips for optimum listening experience: It is a fiction. And like a novel… you may want to start with episode 01 before jumping into episode 02. The episodes build on one another. It is a performance. So like any performance, it invites your attention. Put on headphones and be in this sonic world with us. Take pleasure in listening. Turn off those notifications. It is participatory! You are invited to act. Be open to how the podcast moves you.

In this episode, participants return to a familiar sonic space, but why we are here and who we are with is undergoing a crisis of faith. Nothing is as it seems, and we may never come back.  *Trigger Warning: This episode contains the sound of gunshots. If you would prefer to avoid this section, skip [14:48-14:56]  You can find the transcript for this episode here.  Last Audience: a performance podcast is created and performed by Yanira Castro with Sound Designer Erica Ricketts and Creative Producer Ariel Lembeck.  Episode Collaborators:  Lizbeth Roman, Performer & Composer of Agua que Vuelve with production, mixing and mastering by Rafa Rivera Amir Hall, Performer of The Satyrics  Notes: Speech recordings are of Puerto Rican Independentistas Lolita Lebrón and Pedro Albizu Campos. Podcast Collaborators: Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez, Accessibility Artistry April Biggs, Accessibility Artistry & Transcription Andrew Chapman, Transcript Ep 02 and Ep 03 Paul Knipper, Logo Design Marielys Burgos Melendez, Communicator & Digital Content Strategist  Last Audience is a project of a canary torsi, a group of artists who create performance experiences together. It is inspired from a book of performance scores, Last Audience: a performance manual, made with the Museum of Contemporary Art/Chicago. This podcast was made possible by a generous MacDowell Fellowship.  Follow us on instagram: @acanarytorsi  Tips for optimum listening experience:  It is a fiction. And like a novel… you may want to start with episode 01 before jumping into episode 02. The episodes build on one another.  It is a performance. So like any performance, it invites your attention. Put on headphones and be in this sonic world with us. Take pleasure in listening. Turn off those notifications.  It is participatory! You are invited to act. Be open to how the podcast moves you.

In this debut episode, we welcome the public into a sonic, poetic world and introduce a host of characters. “A bottle into the cosmic ocean” said Carl Sagan about the Voyager’s Golden Record. We feel the same about this episode.  You can find the transcript for this episode here.   Last Audience: a performance podcast is created and performed by Yanira Castro with Sound Designer Erica Ricketts and Creative Producer Ariel Lembeck.  Episode Collaborators:  NEVE, Performer & Composer of Episode 01’s anthem, “Inflorescence”  Stephan Moore, Composer of the music behind the choreographic action  April Biggs, Accessibility Artistry & Transcription  Podcast Collaborators:  Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez, Accessibility Artistry  Paul Knipper, Logo Design  Marielys Burgos Melendez, Communicator & Digital Content Strategist  Last Audience is a project of a canary torsi, a group of artists who create performance experiences together. It is inspired from a book of performance scores, Last Audience: a performance manual, made with the Museum of Contemporary Art/Chicago. This podcast was made possible by a generous MacDowell Fellowship. Follow us on instagram: @acanarytorsi

We made this podcast to align with the 2022 U.S. primaries and midterm elections to rehearse for our collective futures. Our bodies are intelligent guides. This podcast activates them.  You can find the transcript for this episode here.  Last Audience: a performance podcast is created and performed by Yanira Castro with Sound Designer Erica Ricketts and Creative Producer Ariel Lembeck.  Additional Collaborators:  Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez, Accessibility Artistry  Paul Knipper, Logo Design  Marielys Burgos Melendez, Communicator & Digital Content Strategist  Last Audience is a project of a canary torsi, a group of artists who create performance experiences together. It is inspired from a book of performance scores, Last Audience: a performance manual, made with the Museum of Contemporary Art/Chicago. This podcast was made possible by a generous MacDowell Fellowship.  Follow wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow us on instagram: @acanarytorsi