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Vortex of Unconditional Love

Vortex of Unconditional Love is an ongoing sound project responding to the extreme dietary cult known as Breatharianism. Breatharianism teaches that humans do not need to consume food to sustain life; instead, they can gather their life energy solely through breathing. This group draws influence from various fasting and breathing techniques found throughout religions and spiritual practices, but it represents a new permutation of these ideas filtered through Western pseudoscience and capitalist business structures characterized by high-priced seminars, books, and products. Once, Breatharianism founder Wiley Brooks was caught eating McDonald's fast food. Rather than admitting the truth, Brooks chose to work McDonald's into his sacred doctrine, stating that "McDonald's Restaurants are living, breathing, vibrating, consciousness buildings of love, abundance, creativity, immortality & well-being. When you walk into McDonald's, just know you are in a vortex of unconditional love." This project has produced several outputs, ranging from a complex ambisonic sound installation to low-tech tape loops, but each sample ambient recordings of various McDonald's locations that have been hyper-processed in an attempt to uncover the imperceptible vibrations Brooks speaks of. The hyper-processed sound reflects the hyper-processed food that reflects the hyper-processed spirituality.

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