Aubade For ________ by Justin Greene

Dedicated to Carla Greene.

This work sonifies the environment surrounding the West Alabama Women’s Center, an abortion clinic in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The clinic is situated in an office complex between busy roads and forested hiking trails. Standing outside the clinic one hears a steady stream of cars and 18–wheelers, a cacophony of intricate bird songs, the wind rustling the oak leaves and rusty chimes, and the sometimes gentle, but mostly hostile, shouting of protestors.

This digital album was intentionally produced with the implication of financial limitation.

All proceeds from this album benefit the Yellowhammer Fund, the first statewide abortion fund in Alabama associated with the National Network of Abortion Funds.

Justin Greene explores queerness, memory, and grief through abstractions of sounds. Their practice interrogates and deconstructs layers of toxicity ingrained in societal norms through anti-virtuosic playing centered on intensity and fragility.

Justin is from the Deep South. They are currently based in Birmingham, Alabama.

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