A long form audio essay examining the ways in which the mediums of writing and music function differently in processing and vocalizing loss.

Includes: Exploring the experience of listening and reading from both the perspective of the artist and the consumer. Analysis of how dance music can be constructed to reflect and articulate complex emotions. The parallels and differences between the ways in which the written word and sound are utilized to address heavy shit.

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Texts Cited:

Barthes, Roland, and Richard Howard. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments. , 1978. Print.

Moody, Rick. Demonology: Stories. 1st Back Bay pbk. ed. Boston: Back Bay Books, 2002.

wordsofbruce.bandcamp.com/album/hek027…n-line-sweat

Platform – Contemporary-classics-003-untrue

Small, Christopher. Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1998.

Morrison, Toni. Beloved: A Novel. New York: Knopf, 1987. Print.

Sebald, W G. Austerlitz. München: C. Hanser, 2001. Print.

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