“I Am Sitting in a Beat” : sonic experiments

About this episode

An exploration of queer longing and societal norms through sonic experiments and cultural references.

DB10: Klein, Kristeva, and Cop Cars! We navigate the wreckage of straight desire and the shadow spaces of queer longing in this unhinged exploration of gut fantasies, suburban beats, and the surveillance of pleasure. What connects curdled milk to ADHD stimulants? How do abandoned wedding venues become sites of homosocial possibility? And why does playing Nutbush in a disco-lit bushland feel like both liberation and entrapment? We sit in a room with Alvin Lucier’s sonic experiments, and the spectral lisp of post-dental trauma, all while interrogating how beat spaces get policed like family structures and desire gets regulated through ritual. This is part three of the masculine mess, featuring Bronski Beat, cops, cruising, and lots of problematic interruptions. It’s DB10, chaotic and strangely intimate: neuro-divergent, psychoanalytic, and definitely pushing boundaries. Instagram DB10 Works cited: Sadie Barnette, Living Room, 2017 Archie Moore, kith and kin , 2024 Phillip George, Borderlands , 2005 Berlant, Lauren, and Michael Warner. "Sex in public." Critical inquiry 24.2 (1998): 547-566. M. E. O'Brien, Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care , 2023…

People in this episode

Hosts: Melletios Kyriakidis, Tim Gregory

Topics covered

• sonic experiments
• queer longing
• surveillance of pleasure
• masculine mess
• neuro-divergent
• psychoanalytic

Keywords

• queer
• sonic experiments
• surveillance
• masculine mess
• neuro-divergent
• psychoanalysis
• cultural critique

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Living Room, kith and kin, Borderlands, Sex in public, Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care, Terrorist assemblages: Homonationalism in queer times

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