Designed by Inès Allegra Desuasido Lupton

6 x 9.5in
deer metacarpal, emerald ink, latex tubing, Yamaha fipple

The breath is traditionally used to access realms beyond us in our waking memories and sleeping desires. The cut bone embouchures play with breath channels to create experimental flutes inviting us to access the different dreamsongs of the endless humid deep afternoon. The inscriptions on bone of scrimshawed ink feature Baybayin runes of Ili-Ili, Tulog Anay used to coax a child to sleep as the mother buys bread, in variations, the father is out hunting deer, eerily sung in supernatural horror film White Lady this hele has become cursed lullaby. Fear cuts to the bone and deer are generational prey. In Filipino folklore, protection is through the anito, the shapeshifting white deer Lampong. The Yamaha fipple attaches to bone, collapsing time between the anito’s breath and the sounds of impending echelon. The loose diwdiw structure bound by latex tubing resists hierarchy with no frets or strings and resists virtuosity; playing as a body without organs, a desiring-machine, moving in hypnagogia between song.

About the Artist

Inès Allegra Desuasido Lupton investigates sound through text, radio and fantasy. Their recent collaborative works include Parallel 07 presented by Vancouver New Music, Cuckoo Towne with Angela Seo and Jamie Stewart, and 10000yearsspenthere exhibited at the Hatch Art Gallery.