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  We average 20,000 breaths a day, and if we're fortunate, they’re involuntary breaths. We don’t need to think about them. Like the heart beating, they’re automatic. Still, unlike heart beats, we can choose to hold our breaths; to go under water or in anticipation of a meaningful event.
  
  If we are in a polluted environment, we may struggle to breathe. In large cities within the United States, studies have shown people of color suffer more as asthmatics due to more exposure to air pollution and to poor air quality. Additionally, if we are the victims of police brutality and state sanctioned violence, our breath is taken away even after we make it known that we can't breathe.
  
  Being able to breathe within the United States is linked to both racism and privilege. When I began my research in Mexico City on breath in July of 2019, I couldn’t have anticipated the 2020 pandemic, nor the way the virus prevents its most severe sufferers from breathing well. I couldn’t have anticipated the way George Floyd’s death was recorded and played-back to us as we heard him tell the officers that he couldn’t breathe more than twenty times. In California, 2020 was an unprecedented wildfire season. A record in the state for the number of days outdoor air quality was too unhealthy to breathe.
  
  We have expressions such as, "to take one's breath away.” Generally, this expression is used when we experience something positive. We say we are breathless; the body is arrested and moved. Breathing both easily and deeply produces a sense of calm and relaxation. Through the sound of the breath, we’re able to connect with something fundamental about our bodies. Our bodies are affected by the frequencies and intensities within the sound of the air moving through our respiratory system. How are our different bodies affected by these frequencies and intensities?
  
  Side A: Phantasmatic Inspiration and Side B: Phantasmatic Expiration, are two different recordings of the breath. Each was recorded in one take and was improvised. The signal chain was a microphone connected to an XLR cable and direct to a reel to reel machine. ... more
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  Side A: Phantasmatic Inspiration
  Side B: Phantasmatic Expiration
  
  45 RPM
  
  Recorded in San Francisco, CA during the months of September and October, 2020.
  
  Recorded by Daniel Melo Morales direct to 1/4” magnetic tape.
  12” Mastering by Thomas Dimuzio.
  
  Images and Layout by Daniel Melo Morales.
  
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