Go Away, a new work by Sasha Opeiko, co-creator/producer of the Futile Knocking of My Heart, mixes sampled sounds from a classic horror film with the frantic clickings of the death watch beetle, slicing and reframing the fictionalized speec

010- "Spooked", by Stirling Noh

Apr 18th, 2021 6m 52s

Stirling Noh hails from the ether, emerging incognito to commit sudden musical atrocities. Recognized at clandestine nitrous oxide raves for spinning such pulsing cuts as "Za Za", "Cubiform Triangle", and the epic, thunderous gonging of "Leaky

009- “Death Watch, A Melancholy Meandering, Through ‘a’ Dying Process” by Paul David

Mar 13th, 2021 12m 51s

Some contributors took a more narrative approach to the appropriation of the sound. “Death Watch, A Melancholy Meandering, Through ‘a’ Dying Process” “Death Watch, A Melancholy Meandering, Through ‘a’ Dying Process” written and performed by Pau

008- "Night Watch" by Martin Stevens

Mar 12th, 2021 11m 33s

"Night Watch" is a post-ambient soliloquy reflecting on a solitary death lived in a crowded room. It is a crowding of thoughts that is the night watch, the obsessive looping fears of a troubled mind. Stevens attempts to capture the romantic dr

007- "Labour of Decay" by David Bergeron (Qwiet Eye)

Mar 12th, 2021 7m 41s

David Bergeron is primarily an electronic musician who produces music as Qwiet Eye, as well as soundtracks for films, games, and installation art. His work and collaborations have been showcased across Canada in North Bay, Quebec City, Toronto,

006- "Basement" by Opeiko + Stevens

Mar 11th, 2021 13m 15s

Cohabitation with the deathwatch beetle skitters into the subject’s sense of safety, the home becomes an othered place of doom, and this raises questions regarding destabilization of our anthropocentricity through a process of integration of di

005- "Berwick Tweed Deathbeetle" by Christopher McNamara

Mar 11th, 2021 10m 38s

"Berwick Tweed Deathbeetle" conjures an extrinsic journey, a flaneur through contemporary Britain. The track is a cycle of electronic washes under gale warnings radioed to ships at sea. Both danger and comfort are inscribed in a spatial nostalg

004- "Breath Watch Needle" by honjok

Mar 10th, 2021 19m 9s

honjok was born and raised on the shores of The Misery Coast. He received his formal education in filmmaking, after formative years dabbling with synthesizers. honjok marks his return to electronic “music” decades later, this time with a focu

"Structural Timbres: A Generative Infestation" by Andrew Bradt + Link to live stream

Mar 10th, 2021 20m

"Structural Timbres: A Generative Infestation" is a live stream of a dead-living sound object entitled "Structural Timbres: A Generative Infestation". It is a real-time stream of a generative audio system which models the patterns, behaviour an

003- "Only Dead Trees are Growing Here" by Sasha Opeiko

Mar 10th, 2021 20m 30s

In Slime Dynamics, Ben Woodard states that “Contagion becomes neither death nor life but protracted life, a state of never quite being dead – an undeadness not of the living dead but of " dead living ... death becomes cracked open and endless”

002-"Market Melancholy" by Andrea Slavik

Mar 10th, 2021 3m 23s

"Market Melancholy" by Andrea Slavik. As an interdisciplinary artist and educator, Andrea Slavik seeks to challenge popular ideological practices and forms of representation active in Western culture. She holds an MA in Visual and Critical Stud

001- "Damage" by Les Godfrey & Martin Stevens

Mar 10th, 2021 5m 35s

"Damage" by Les Godfrey & Martin Stevens. Les Godfrey is an Ontario musician and luthier, building classic guitars and basses, timeless works of playable art. "Another place, another music, another song for these two hands. All too familiar nev

001a - Introduction

Mar 8th, 2021 2m

The Futile Knocking of My Heart is a collaborative podcast project by Sasha Opeiko + Martin Stevens created for the “Speculative Figures and Speculative Futures: Our Uncanny Postapocalypse: Sights and Sounds” panel at The 52nd Annual Convention

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