Where is the emotional weight of a song located? After heartbreak and loss, I listen. Where does it’s cathartic power come from? I need to move, so I go running. Why this song in particular? Perhaps my body knows something I’ve missed. Perhaps it’s time to start singing? This work is a song that listens to a song, lets the body take over, and moves to a transmutational engagement with what Roland Barthes calls the grain of the voice, or “the materiality of the body speaking its mother tongue”.

Special thanks: Cesi Nolten for assistance with sound design.