Parthenogenesis, one night improvising

by Soubrette

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Also... 07:27
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2.
Giunse alfin il momento... 13:20
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3.
Blood bath... 07:23
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4.
Une petite guerre... 05:22
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Horna... 06:10
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Hah hie... 05:03
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Five six... 05:19
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Je veux vivre... 10:25
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Ach ich... 04:27
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One night in... 01:16
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about

On Sunday I went into Fractal Cactus and the owner showed me his flying geckos. Both breeds laid eggs that week — one's eggs were the size of a peas, the other's like little moth balls. The parents had eaten one of them already; apparently they can sense a "dud" before it hatches. One of the breeds is all-female, so they reproduce by means of parthenogenesis.

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"some 70 vertebrate species and many less-complex organisms—'use all the chromosomes they have' to solitarily produce offspring that are genetic clones, molecular biologist Peter Baumann says. Because the organisms are genetically identical, they're more vulnerable: A disease or an environmental shift that kills one could kill all." (Nat. Geo. article for educators, grades 3-12+)

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Parthenogenesis has been in my iPhone note "Names for things" for a while, so I took this as a sign. Like baby clone eggs, the following moments of sound are genetically identical to the sounds activated last night. The loops are older, but nothing has been post-produced by another person or future me thirsting for (let's be honest—irrelevant) salability, sonic cleanliness, all the additive qualities that aren't of the moment.

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Few people will listen to these. I think that's a beautiful thing. The more corners of the world we decorate for explorers the better, and we'd do well to hold this ideal up to the dominant and inherited notions of commercially-viable impressions, post-production to the point of sterility, even listenability. When was the last time you hung around a street musician long enough to hear the entire set? You're going about your business, so probably never. Read this blurb and don't listen to the music, listen to ten seconds of a track, I really don't care. This is the world we live in, and I think of uploading unedited stuff like this as my contribution to a metamodern air quality: familial intimacy, candid beauty, glimpses into lived life, instincts from the loving nowhere.

—Soubrette
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I never want to be stuck in a clever boy's laptop again. -paraphrase, FKA Twigs

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unedited photo by Griffin Kabus, self-cropped

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released January 26, 2021

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Soubrette Los Angeles, California

Soubrette is an opera singer's revolt. After studying classical voice at Bard College and touring with Juno Award-winning baroque orchestra Ensemble Caprice, she is now found fashioning pieces in DAWs and writhing on dark stages, liquefying experimental poetics, operatic arias, spells, accidents, improvisation, and sensual pop. She is a Performer-Composer MFA candidate at CalArts. ... more

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