Artist Playlists: MV Carbon
For this new series, Dia invites artists to curate a playlist that brings together music that they are listening to right now or that has been meaningful to them during their life.
This auditory experience opens up a sonic space in which the listener can visualize, letting their imagination lead the way toward a desired outcome. Each track in this collection is based on an intention, conceived to infiltrate the listener’s consciousness and allow their minds to drift toward the realms of belief, psychic imagery, and mental transparency.
Instructions
Read the text and acknowledge whatever meaning you derive from it, then play the track. Find yourself a comfortable place to sit or lay, close your eyes, and give logic a rest. Allow yourself to explore the limits of psychological potential. Strands of consciousness metamorphosize as you travel through psychic phenomena—pain, joy, fear, belief, desire, and intention are recognized and decoded in multiple dimensions. Your sense of perception expands and eases your mind as the sound resonates.
Particle Stream
The observer's eye, naked
with oxygen and nitrogen;
violet, blue and yellow scatter.
Radiation deflects in one direction.
Sunsets in.
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Perpetual
… gesticulating
bodies continue forever.
Water together, changing form.
Storm
Current
Wave
Flow
Motion, notion;
Go...
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Transmogrification
Toroidal space unfolds.
Conversion takes hold.
Shapes amalgamate,
semblance fluctuates.
Guises shift face,
flexing in space;
you begin to see the world through a new form.
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1011 Cells
Revamped cells sound,
as damaged fluctuations disperse.
Synthesis and preservation drive your carriage.
Hold tight to the reins of resilience.
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Photo: MV Carbon
Dread Dissolver
Perception bending.
Mind cleansing.
Thought curvature.
Hologram nurturer.
Stars quilted
with integrity,
blinking;
pressure free.
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Release
Surrender
a song to the stratosphere...
Give
one mouth of the wormhole
a substantial velocity
with respect to the other.
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Sleep Pattern
Wakefulness dissolves;
a passageway to the subconsciousness opens silently.
Mirror, bridge, arc, stream, dream.
Ease your ventral pallidum.
Slip from expectation;
twist, sleep, scan
your circadian circuits.
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Deep Roots
Biomes
pivot
and service
the Ecosystem.
Soil
in the lower troposphere;
agronomy,
hydrology,
ecophysiology,
climatology.
Our roots branch out.
We mingle
to The Core of the Earth.
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—MV Carbon
MV Carbon is a multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses sound, performance, film, sculpture, and multimedia installation. She uses tape delay, feedback, re-amplification and conjures sounds from amplified objects, stringed instruments, magnetic tape, gongs, electronic synthesis, and artifacts. Carbon’s practice works to heighten sensory awareness while amplifying ritual, rhythm, and momentum in sound. Her current work explores themes such as interchangeability, shape shifting, illusion, and perpetual motion. Carbon has released solo and collaborative LPs through record labels including 5RC, Atavistic Records, Ecstatic Peace, Hanson, Load Records, and No Fun Productions. MV Carbon has performed at, among others: Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, Massachusetts; The Kitchen, New York City; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Tate Modern, London.