Vicky Chunxin Gong
                  Mapping Grief(2025)
                                                          For my sister, who sent a photo and a recording from my grandma’s funeral, 
whose absence pressed against me across the Pacific like a quiet current I could neither hold nor fully escape.







image processed with high-pass filter










`                                                                                                      a mobile recording, 20241206_075012.m4a, 85:58, background interference present



a peak frequency spectrogram (top), two channel time waveform (middle) and spectrum (bottom) 



a melodic range spectrogram

 

December 3, 2024, 9:23 a.m. (CST) — my grandma 姥姥 took her last breath at home in Hefei.