On August 6, 2020 LabSynthE presented One Breath Poem: A Needful Message at the Arts & Humanities Teach-in:, “Interrogations of Police Violence.”
One Breath Poem: A Needful Message is a telematic call and response project in which the voice expresses a poem or poetic phrase with the limitation of speaking in just one “unit” or a single exhale. This edition of One Breath Poem, LabSynthE’s fifth iteration on this interactive sound project, was prompted by the uprisings against police brutality and systemic racism during the summer of 2020. In this version we center Ross Gay’s poem, “A Small Needful Fact,” which explores the beauty of a man’s life and the legacy of his death in the span of a breath.
For copyright purposes, this version of One Breath Poem was only active for 24 hours. We collected 12 recordings of Ross Gay’s poem in that time. We also pre-recorded translations of “A Small Needful Fact” in Farsi, Spanish, Korean, Italian, and Portuguese.
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