“MOTHER IN THE FRIDGE / FLOW / DIASPORA / RESERVOIR”
Felix Kubin’s Mother in the Fridge (2012, 31′) turns a kitchen into a stage where a mother’s voice emerges from cupboard, pot, bin, and box—offering brisk English-lesson asides and comic, uncanny counsel. An Oedipal burlesque assembled from everyday sound and crisp montage.
Following Mother in the Fridge is an excerpt from Kubin’s kinetic sound collage Flow. Created during Kubin’s 2022 Villa Aurora residency, the sonic landscape of this piece is built from recordings of Los Angeles poets and writers juxtaposed with city atmospheres like hummingbirds, traffic, and helicopter rotor wash.
In part 3 of this week’s episode of “If the House Could Speak”, poet Yesika Salgado reads Diaspora and Reservoir. Her voice is tracing migration, care, and the hydrology of Los Angeles, mapping time in place, gathering a narrative of what the city holds and what it lets go.
Felix Kubin is a Hamburg-born composer, radio dramatist, and media artist whose work spans
futurist pop, electroacoustic composition, and experimental broadcasting. Kubin also runs the
label Gagarin Records.
http://felixkubin.com/
Listen to Flow in it’s entirety here.
Yesika Salgado is a Los Angeles–born Salvadoran poet and activist. Salgado is the author of
the collections Corazón, Tesoro, and Hermosa and has had work featured by The New York
Times and Los Angeles Times.
https://www.yesikasalgado.com/
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