“Frequencies, with Trent Wintermeier,” is an episode of The Data Fix podcast, hosted by Mél Hogan.

Listen to the data center's hum with your feet first... on this episode, we discuss what it means to absorb sound through the body and "hear" vibrations with and through your limbs and ears. We discuss what this means for folks living near data centers, especially in places imagined as kinds of sacrifice zones.

“I’m trying to capture what it means to be constantly exposed to this sound and never be able to excape it. It’s in your home, its around your home, it’s in the places you work. This is constantly circulating and I think “body as archive” is a great way to explain it because it’s sort of a forced archive. You’re never able to escape this sound and its health effects: hypertension, loss of sleep, increased anxiety. So what does it mean to hear a sound, recognize that you’re always open to it, and create that felt archive?”

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