A street dog sleeping in a corner of a mosque in Istanbul, her color indistinguishable from the ancient stones around her. The background sound is the religious ceremony as it actually sounded — recorded on site, unaltered, broadcast through the mosque's trumpet speakers.

When the dog trembles in her sleep — the nervous system firing automatically against the cold, the body running its thermal program without waking her — a brief electronic sound appears, built in the studio to match the frequency and duration of each trembling. When the trembling stops, the ceremony remains.

The piece does not illustrate the opposition between the sacred and the mechanical. It finds them running the same program, in the same stone room, at the same time — neither aware of the other, neither in charge.

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