https://soundcloud.com/katsy-pline/kid-gloves-public-feelings-edit

“I sampled bits of a lecture she (Berlant)  gave after the publication of ‘Cruel Optimism.’ I combined that with a sample from a Drake song. The percussion was sourced from my field recordings of everyday soundscapes. The piano is from an artist named Nadia Lucia.
Drake, for me, exemplifies many of the thematics of Berlant’s work, particularly surrounding intimacy, love and other fantasies of the good life. I wanted to see if I could transform a song of his into a critique of, rather than an affirmation of, the impasse. The aim of this particular song was to detourne an instance of a kind of cruel optimism (the heterosexual couple form) into an analysis of the fantasies and attachments that keep us bound to an interminable present. Using the sounds of ordinary rhythms as percussive elements links these fantasies to the mundane, minute practices and contexts through which these fantasies are sustained. It’s an attempt to think through sonically the ways in which certain forms of belonging like the couple form are a kind of rhythmic pattern, connected to other rhythms of various sorts (walking, motorized transport, biological rhythms, and so on). The composition itself takes the form of question: ‘what are you so afraid of?’ It then sets out to trace through sound that which binds us to certain fantasies and attachments in the impasse. Or such was the the hope, at least :). ” for more of KP’s efforts check out: https://insearchoftheconcrete.wordpress.com/