General Feeling, 15 mins, 2021
Text, Performance & 3 Track Sound Piece

Seep. Seep. Seep. Seep. General Feeling is a sonic love letter to ‘Xeny’, the alien Xenomorph from Ridley Scott’s Alien, 1979. Weaving autobiographical diary entries of trans-affirmation and medical accounts of trans* individuals from Richard von Kraft-Ebbing’s medical journal Psychopathia Sexualis (1887), General Feeling carries voices of trans-ancestry and sensually speaks towards the sonic, fluid, overflowing capacities of an alien inside. Somewhere way out in the cosmos, another wor(l)d is recieving a signal, the voice seeping from the holes and pores of a speaker; an impossible womb for the words that make, morph and unbuild flesh. Ingest this transmission. Seep. Seep. Seep. Seep.

Tracklist:
1 – GENERAL FEELING
2 – EXTRA PRE/SENSORY PERCEPTION 
3 – LOVE HOW YOU LOVE ME XENY

General Feeling (Excerpt), 8.35 mins

General Feeling, Lou Lou Sainsbury, 2021.
Designed by Toni Brell.
All tracks written, performed and recorded by Lou Lou Sainsbury in Lemgow, Germany & Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

References:
  1. Scott, Ridley, 1979. Alien.
  2. Krafft-Ebbing, Richard von. 1887. Psychopathia Sexualis. Eine klinische-forensische studie.
  3. Adorno, Theodor. 1951. Minima moralia: reflections on a damaged life.
  4. The Fall. 1979. Hex Enduction Hour, Hip Priest.
  5. Butler, Octavia E. 1987. Dawn: Xenogenesis series. Vol. 1.
  6. The Paris Sisters. 1961. I Love How You Love Me.

Commissioned by Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, The Netherlands.
Special thanks to Kari Rosenfeld, Iga Świeściak, Hypatia Vourloumis, Marie Tučková, Saskia Burggraaf,  Liesbieth Visee, Toni Brell, Azul De Monte, Ilgin Deniz Akseloğlu, Rory Pilgrim, Snejanka Mihaylova and all re/un-named trans* & alien beings.