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MASTERED BY TEA ARE SEA - thank you, Terry, for resuscitating these sounds! https://soundcloud.com/tea_are_sea
method: contact mics into t resonator, reface dx, vt 4, voice, zoom r 20, samplitude, audacity - and asking Terry of Tea Are Sea to save the day - which he kindly did.
narration: the poem is some four to five years old and published in one of my private collections …. nondescript places can also combine with, arrange, adjust experience … sympoetic localities ….
image: copyright jo richter
poem / copyright jo richter:
dort, wo sie oft weilt,
sieht sie blind. sie fühlt nicht
wie die, die unvertraut
mit den hier lauernden impulsen
sind, denen die marmorierung
dieser erstarrung, dieses verfalls
noch nie ihr außen-ich bot.
sie er-
hält sich, fasst sich, nun, da es leer ist, weil
alles schon da war, stets,
als bleibe auch sie sich
gleich, als
strömten nicht neue namen unheimlich
durch sie,
mit jedem molekül atemluft, smartphonegeläut,
imbissgeruch. die menschen hier aber
sind immobiler als die gebäude, so
wirkt es
ihr. in den fugen nisten die spinnen, wie immer
wenn sich etwas regt - unwillkürlich und außer dem takt
stürmt es bei den antipoden.
interlinear version:
cast replica // in places she often stays at / she is blind. she does not sense / like those not familiar with / the impulses stalking / here, to whom the marbling / of this torpor, this decrepitude / has never shown its outside-I. / she keeps / herself up, her countenance, now, that id‘s empty, for // everything has already been around, ever, / as though she remained / the same , as / though unnamed names were not streaming eerily / through her / with each and every molecule of breath, of smartphone ringing, / of the smell of take-away food. people here, however, / are less mobile than the buildings that‘s / what it appears to be like / to her. the spaces in between have spiders nesting, as usual / when something moves – unintentionally and out of timing / storms are brewing where antipodeans live //
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