infusion has its origins in June of 2019, with the culmination of my sponsored artist residency with High Concept Laboratories in Chicago. My time during my residency focused on sound as keeper of stories, of language, and of frequencies.

HIGH CONCEPT LABS SOUTH FORK

LOVE HERTZ WAS THE TITLE OF ONE OF THE FOUR PIECES DEVELOPED. IT BEGINS WITH THE WORK OF DR. MASARU EMOTO, AND HIS WATER EXPERIMENTS THAT HAVE BECOME CLOSE TO WHAT MANY MIGHT DESCRIBE AS A CULT CLASSIC. HIS EXPERIMENTS SUGGESTED THAT HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS CAN IMPACT THE MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF WATER. IF WATER CAN BE IMPACTED BY THOUGHTS AND WORDS, WHAT OTHER VIBRATIONS COULD  IMPACT THE WATER’S MOLECULAR STRUCTURE? CONSIDERING DR. EMOTO’S WORK, I ALSO ASK  “WHAT WOULD BE THE EFFECT OF CONSUMING WATER THAT HAS BEEN INFUSED WITH THOUGHTS, WORDS, AND OTHER SONIC TONES?AS A RESPONSE AN ORIGINAL 5 MINUTE COMPOSITION CONSISTING OF SPOKEN TEXT CONTAINING WORDS OF AFFIRMATION, A TONE OF 639 HZ, AND 528 HZ. THESE TONES WERE CHOSEN BASED ON THE MANY STUDIES THAT EXIST COVERING THE EFFECTS OF VARIOUS FREQUENCIES. THE FREQUENCY OF 639 HZ HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS A FREQUENCY OF PURE POSITIVE LOVE AND INTERPERSONAL HARMONY, WHILE 538 HZ IS ASSOCIATED WITH BEING THE “LOVE FREQUENCY” AS WELL AS CELL REGENERATION.  THE RECORDED COMPOSITION WAS PLAYING INTO 5 GALLON GLASS JUG FILLED WITH WATER. IT WAS PLAYING THROUGH A CONTACT MICROPHONE THAT WAS MADE BY HAND THAT WAS PLUGGED INTO TO A SINGLE CHANNEL SPEAKER. INDIVIDUAL GLASSES WERE FURNISHED, FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WITH THE SOUND MATERIAL THROUGH DRINKING OF THE WATER.