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The Empathy Chamber (2016)

by Going There & Bennett Kuhn

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The Empathy Chamber (Sides A & B) 22:26
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"If you had joined me in The Empathy Chamber on one of those nights in 2016, our improvisation might have gone any number of ways. We might have played for only a moment, just long enough for you to get a feeling for the novelty of the Animoog iOS software synthesizer. More likely we’d have sat there for a few minutes exchanging gestures in sound, admiring the small flickers of choice here and there altering the course of our duet. Listening back to the recordings below, I now hear little moments of decision, signposts of discovery. We were above all investigating ways of listening to listening and playing about playing. Awkward semi-steps and pauses, moments of talking over, stuck notes, and other anxious soundings laid out a groundwork for complex interaction and exchange meant to stimulate imagination on the theme of empathy."

From "The Empathy Chamber" in Synapsis journal of health humanities at Columbia University. Full text available here: medicalhealthhumanities.com/empathychamber/

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released May 2, 2019

The Empathy Chamber was one of my contributions to the nine-person aesthetic practice Going There, which culminated in a three-night performance at the Beaumont Wherehouse in 2016. Thank to the cast and crew of Going There: Elizabeth Weinstein, Keys, Dani Gershkoff, Sterling Duns, Corey Mark, C. Kennedy, Joey Hartmann-Dow, Carl Hoblitzell, and Marty Gottlieb-Hollis, as well as strangers who improvised with me on these recordings.

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