Lavender Festival Ephemera

Issue 3

https://manyworlds.place/issue-3/allison-masangkay/

by Allison Masangkay




[00:00:00] Person’s voice: s- s- s- s- s- s- ♪ ocean waves crashing ♪
[00:00:02] Person’s voice: s- s- su- (distant voice): Oh!
[00:00:03] (click from tea steeper) Person’s voice: sugat
[00:00:04] ♪ lush sustained chord of synthesized ambient pads with a thick, bright tone ♪
[00:00:09] ♪ series of quick, bubbly, fluid notes ♪
[00:00:14] ♪ lush sustained synthesized ambient pads with a dark chord progression ♪
[00:00:21] ♪ more quick, bubbly, fluid notes ♪
[00:00:28] ♪ more quick, bubbly, fluid notes ♪
[00:00:29] ♪ several tones of clicky, bouncy noises ♪
[00:00:31] ♪ lush sustained synthesized ambient pads with a deeper but brighter chord ♪
[00:00:41] ♪ more quick, bubbly, fluid notes ♪ ♪ ocean waves crashing then fading away ♪ (distant voice): Over there!
[00:00:49] ♪ lush sustained synthesized ambient pads with a darker, deeper chord progression ♪ ♪ repeated tones of clicky, bouncy noises ♪ ♪ faint moving lasers shooting ♪
[00:00:50] ♪ repeated tones of clicky, bouncy noises ♪
[00:00:51] ♪ lush sustained synthesized ambient pads with a dark chord progression ♪
[00:01:02] ♪ metallic hit with echo ♪ ♪ faint moving lasers shooting ♪
[00:01:03] Person’s voice: s- s- su-
[00:01:08] ♪ more quick, bubbly, fluid notes ♪
[00:01:09] ♪ lush sustained chord of synthesized ambient pads with a thick, bright tone ♪
[00:01:18] ♪ louder repeated tones of clicky, bouncy noises ♪ ♪ louder, quick, bubbly, fluid notes ♪
[00:01:24] ♪ faint moving lasers shooting ♪
[00:01:25] ♪ lush sustained synthesized ambient pads with a darker, deeper chord progression ♪
[00:01:26] ♪ metallic hit with echo ♪
[00:01:30] ♪ metallic hit with echo ♪
[00:01:34] ♪ metallic hit with echo ♪
[00:01:37] ♪ metallic hit with echo ♪
[00:01:40] ♪ repeated tones of clicky, bouncy noises ♪
[00:01:42]♪ lush sustained synthesized ambient pads with a deeper but brighter chord ♪
[00:01:52] ♪ metallic hit with echo ♪
[00:01:56] ♪ metallic hit with echo ♪
[00:01:57] ♪ repeated tones of clicky, bouncy noises ♪
[00:01:58] ♪ repeated tones of clicky, bouncy noises ♪ ♪ quick, bubbly, fluid notes ♪
[00:02:00] ♪ lush sustained synthesized ambient pads with a darker, deeper chord progression ♪
[00:02:05] ♪ metallic hit with echo ♪
[00:02:08] ♪ metallic hit with echo ♪
[00:02:10] ♪ faint moving lasers shooting ♪
[00:02:16] ♪ metallic hit with echo ♪
[00:02:18] ♪ ambient pads gradually fade away ♪
[00:02:20] ♪ repeated tones of clicky, bouncy noises increase in volume ♪ ♪ metallic hit with echo ♪
[00:02:24] ♪ metallic hit with echo ♪
[00:02:28] ♪ metallic hit with echo ♪
[00:02:30] ♪ faint moving lasers fade away ♪ ♪ repeated tones of clicky, bouncy noises continue in isolation before fading away alone ♪

Allison Masangkay (she/they) is an entity—sick, disabled, trans, queer, femme, cultural worker, researcher, aswang, cyborg, and more—with ancestors from the archipelago referred to as the Philippines. They currently reside in Duwamish territory (Seattle, WA) and previously lived in Jamestown S’Klallam land (Sequim, WA) and Lenni-Lenape land (northern New Jersey). Her current work includes prose (i.e., creative nonfiction, personal essays, critical theory essays), speculative fiction, sound, and collage envisioning Filipinx/a/o and greater brown, Indigenous, and Black embodiment beyond anti-Blackness, colonialism, and white supremacy. Their prose and other media have been published in Disability Visibility Project, Decomp Journal, and others.