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The Heart

MONOLOGUE #19 | If the Sea Could Talk

The Heart

Kaitlin Prest

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Audio artist and organizer Aliya Pabani takes Gaza Monologue #19 and binaural in-ear microphones (be sure to listen for the 3-dimensional effect: listen in headphones and you will walk with her) to a Toronto branch of the largest worldwide financier of weapons used by Israel. 

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0:41.9

From Mermaid Palace and Ashtar Theater, welcome. To the heart, I'm Caitlin Pressed. This is great love. The Gaza monologues, revisited.

1:04.7

February 2024.

1:06.5

A Leah Pabani, a Toronto-based artist and organizer, receives a text from her friend K.P. Me.

1:15.0

Asking her if she'd be down to read a Gaza monologue and create an audio piece that talks about her organizing work.

1:26.4

What you're about to hear is what Alia created instead. A binaural recording of an appointment at the bank.

1:40.0

Binaural microphones create a three-dimensional audio experience.

1:47.0

They replicate the way that your ears actually hear.

1:51.0

So if you can, put your headphones on. And imagine yourself with

1:58.4

Alya. It did. It seems like it's working. Walking into Scotia Bank headquarters, downtown Toronto, where she has a meeting scheduled

2:09.4

to open a business account.

2:11.4

Put my folder in or hold it in my hand maybe. a business account. In her hands is a Manila envelope with some

2:20.0

financial statements her ID and a copy of Gaza Monologue, number 19.

2:28.6

Fatima Atala. The I want a lot allow my phone. I'm going to see. I am I sharing the point there.

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