ALEX RAJA VEN
Contact
Instagram





















© 2025 Alex Raja Ven

dorothy.mp3 (2025)

dorothy.mp3 is a generative sound installation that stages the slow disintegration of digital memory as a sonic and conceptual gesture. Built in SuperCollider, the piece loops and recursively overwrites a single audio file, gradually obscuring it with digital artifacts, noise, and spectral remnants. Over seven hours, the source—a time-stretched version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”—drifts from clarity into distortion, becoming a haunting, slowed signal: something remembered but not quite retrievable. Referencing a common file format defined by loss and reduction, dorothy.mp3 becomes a speculative archive, flickering between recognition and disappearance. It gestures toward queer and trans memory not as something fixed or preserved, but as something always in motion—compressed, overwritten, and re-emerging in fragments.