Embodied Sound: Dayna McLeod

I had used contact mics in 2018 as part of a residency sponsored by Media@McGill at Ada X in Montreal with Nik Forrest and Jackie Gallant. We were experimenting with my vaginal canal as recording studio and did some recordings to figure out what Uterine Concert Hall was and was not using a contact mic in place of the speaker to hear what vaginal space might sound like. (Intimate Karaoke, Live at Uterine Concert Hall is an interactive sound-based performance that figures my uterus as a concert venue.)

The sound featured in this video is from those sessions. I have effected and processed it. I think this is a recording in which I was moving my legs as though on a bicycle.

interior monologue