cite/site   

cite/site is an ongoing series of audio essays piecing together field recordings, spoken text, voice messages and pop culture audio. Placing importance on threads of ongoing citation, this series relocates these fragments in an auditory form of place.  

The title of the project pulls on the words etymology and the ways linguistic meaning changes with context and repetition (“cite” in the capacity of quoting, summoning, re-calling or rousing to action, and “site” as in location from the Latin situs meaning “allowing to be”).  

The first two episodes were first aired on CFRO 100.5 Co-op Radio on “The Soundscape - Cut & Run” show, which can be heard here. 

(2022-)

Ep#1: holeness

The essence of hole-ness is an ongoing interest which turns to the tension
that arises when we are confronted with a hole/gap/void while searching for something solid &/or “complete.” This episode is a sonic meander around some holes and what people chose to do with them.  For a full discriptive transcript of this episode, click here.

Works cited:
(if not mentioned, recordings were done be me)

[00:00-8:40] Background through line is the sound of a black hole played through a MIDI keyboard.

[00:09, 3:09, 7:47] Clips from “Henry Belafonte & Odetta - A Hole in the Bucket (Live)” from Henry Belafonte Television and Video Archive on YouTube. Sampled November, 2022.

[0:22] Clip from “Physics expert explains how NASA got sound from a black hole” from CNN on YouTube. Sampled November 2022.

[00:27] Shoveling at Queen Elizabeth Park. Recorded December 29, 2021.

[00:42] Culvert echo. Recorded March 2, 2022.

[00:53] Clip from “Stretching Belief Part 2” by Baumgartner Restoration, YouTube, Dec 19, 2021. Sampled March, 2022.

[00:58] Clip from Episode 5 “Borehole” of Justin Bennett's soundwalk Vilgiskoddeoayvinyarvi: Wolf Lake on the Mountains on Sonic Acts (2016). Sampled Nov 7, 2022.

[1:29] Digging a hole in the snow at Queen Elizabeth Park. Recorded December 29, 2021.

[2:09] Clip from “Incredible sounds created as an ice core is dropped into a hole in Antarctica | ABC News” from ABC News on YouTube. Sampled November, 2022.

[2:16, 3:45, 6:32] Me reading segments from Holeness by Rebecca Geldard and Andrea Heller while sitting in my “little dark cave” of a fireplace. Recorded November 22, 2021.

[2:45] Clips from "Plugging A Hole In The Dam Part 1" from TexasPrepper2 on YouTube. Sampled November 4, 2022.

[4:09] J reading from Jean-Paul Sarte’s Being and Nothingness (1956), translated by Hazel Barnes, pg.113. Recorded by Joshua Silicas July 11, 2022.

[5:26] J reading from Devil on the Cross by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (1980). Recorded March 4, 2022.

[5:52] Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote and “The Black Hole” from Whattunesyouon on YouTube. Sampled December, 2022.

[6:48] Yasmine’s page turns while reading Geldard and Heller’s Holeness.Recorded in November 22, 2021, edited by Nick in May 2, 2022.

Ep#2: breath

This episode came out of a time when the significance of a single breath in sustaining/taking life had become uncomfortably literal. It’s an attempt at sonic comfort and to find some comedic relief in something seemingly abundant and yet so limited.  For a full discriptive transcript of this episode, click here.

Works Cited:
(if not mentioned, recordings were done be me)

[00:00-11:30] Background melody is modulated audio of my mother inhaling played on MIDI keyboard.

[1:05, 2:35, 7:37] “Breath” clip from the opening scene of The Good Nurse (2022). Sampled November 15, 2022.

[2:19] All the breaths my mum took while reading ‘Twas Night Before Christmas just after getting out of the hospital. Recorded December 24, 2021.

[3:49] J, R, K and I trying the Wim Hoff Method. Recorded by Kiel Torres in the spring of 2022.

[5:38] J inhaling Jean-Paul Sarte’s Existentialism and Human Emotions (1957) pg.84. Recorded by Joshua Silicas July 11, 2022.

[6:18] My dog breathing in Lynn Canyon. Recorded February 8, 2022.

[8:54] Clip from Everything is Alive, “Atsuko, Bagpipe,” voiced by Atsuko Okatsuka. Sampled August 18, 2022.

[10:34] Me performing Breath by Samuel Beckett (1969). Recorded November 22, 2022. 

Ep#3:kitchen talks

The best things are usually worked out in the kitchen. Through audio from a culmination of kitchens in my life, this episode winks at this layered space for meeting human needs, bringing in cooking, recipe sharing, various recent project sound bites and normal true-life chats. For a full discriptive transcript of this episode, click here.

Works cited:
(if not mentioned, recordings were done be me)

[00:00-12:48] Background is the hummm of my refrigerator with resonation. Recorded in Vancouver, BC, December 9, 2022.

[0:34, 11:59] My freezer door. Recorded in Vancouver, BC, December 9, 2022.

[0:39] Morning in Grandmama’s kitchen, talking over classic Turkish recipes and overhearing Grandpapa’s 93rd birthday phone calls. Recorded in Montréal, QC, June 13th 2022.

[1:10] Making gelatin molds with J.W. during overlapping stays at the Similkameen Artist Residency. Recorded in Keremeos, BC, November 22, 2022.

[1:58] Mum talking about her family of farmers. Recorded on Galiano Island, BC, March 3, 2014.

[2:43] H.E. and I recipe testing ice cream for A Kitchen in Your Calendar. Recorded in Vancouver, BC, June 9, 2025.

[3:00] K.T., J.A., R.I. and I cutting the pie. Recorded in Vancouver, BC, October 19, 2022.

[3:55] Telling my brother J.S.’s leek-washing sleep advice. Recorded on Galiano Island, BC, March 3, 2014.

[5:40] Filming J.S. washing a leek for our (unreleased) film. Recorded in Vancouver, BC, February 5, 2022.

[6:00] Reading a poem J.S. wrote for me. Recorded in Vancouver, BC, April 5, 2022.

[7:12] Cutting fresh rhubarb from the garden into a metal bowl. Recorded on Hornby Island, BC, June 29, 2024.

[8:00] C.R., B.M., H.K., R.D. and I playing Fuck, Merry, Kill, See casually: bread, rice, pasta, potato while watching the F1 Monaco Grand Prix. Recorded in Vancouver, BC, May 27, 2024.

[9:12, 9:38] Clip from “VERB FRAU TV supporting, Day 3 - LIVE Biennale 2019” from livebiennalevideo on YouTube. Recorded by Margaret Dragu on October 5, 2019. Sampled November 3, 2024.

[10:03] No Industry Supper Club. Recorded in Vancouver, BC, March 24, 2024.

[10:40] H.E. and I recipe testing gluten free dumplings for A Kitchen in Your Calendar. Recorded in Vancouver, BC, June 9, 2025.

[11:37] C.C. and O.H. getting into it at No Industry Supper Club. Recorded in Vancouver, BC, March 24, 2024.

[12:00] Clip from “Kitchen Chat: What Effect Does Food Have on Our Brain?” from Rebecca Katz on YouTube. Published January 15, 2015. Sampled October 24, 2025.