Last Audience: a performance podcast is a 3-part space opera grounded in the Caribbean diaspora, specifically Boriken (Puerto Rico). It takes participants on a journey, a futuristic sonic environment that imagines the transmission of gesture as collective action. A project of a canary torsi, created by Yanira Castro with Erica Ricketts, it is a fiction, a dance and political proposition in one podcast.
Tips for optimal Listening:
- It is a fiction. You may want to start with episode 01 before jumping into episode 02 and 03. The episodes build on one another.
- It is a performance. Put on headphones and attend. We suggest turning off notifications on your listening device.
- It is participatory! You are invited to act. Be open to how the podcast moves you and act on it.
**We are working on crip time with April Biggs to create sensorially rich transcripts for deaf and Hard-of-Hearing people for Ep 02 and Ep 03. We will share them here on the website as soon as they are complete.
Episode 03: Out There
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.
Episode 02: Dear Citizen
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]
Episode 01: You Are Here
“A bottle into the cosmic ocean” said Carl Sagan about the Voyager’s Golden Record. We feel the same about this debut episode. In it, we welcome the public into a sonic, poetic world and introduce a host of characters.
Episode 00: Hello, Public
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.
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Team
Yanira Castro Negroni, Writer, Director, Performer
Erica Ricketts, Audio Designer/Engineer
Ariel Lembeck, Creative Producer
Amir Hall, Performer of The Satyrics in Episode 02, 03
April Biggs, Accessibility Artistry & Transcription
Andrew Chapman, Transcript Episode 02, 03
Christopher “Unpezverde” Nunez, Accessibility Artistry (original collaborator)
Marielys Burgos Melendez, Communicator & Digital Content Strategist
Paul Knipper, Logo Designer
Featured Artists
Episode 01: You Are Here
NEVE, Performer & Composer of Episode 1’s anthem, “Inflorescence”
Stephan Moore, Composer of the music behind the choreographic action
Episode 02: Dear Citizen
Lizbeth Roman, Performer & Composer, Agua que Vuelve
Rafa Rivera, Production, Mixing and Mastering, Agua que Vuelve
Episode 03: Out There
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 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)
Notes
Episode 01: You Are Here
This episode was made possible by a MacDowell Fellowship.
Episode 02: Dear Citizen
Speech recordings are of Puerto Rican Independentistas Lolita Lebrón and Pedro Albizu Campos.
Episode 03: Out There
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.