To make gestures of the dead, to die again, to make the dead reenact once more their deaths in their entirety—these are what I want to experience within me. A person who has died once can die over and over again within me.
— Tatsumi Hijikata
It is an interval, an interlude, inserted, with the object of recreation, into the tenor of life’s main concerns; its purpose the relief of the organism, which is perpetually busy at its task of self-renewal, and which was in danger, almost in process, of being vitiated, slowed down, relaxed, by the bald unjointed monotony of its daily course.
– Thomas Mann
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The sketch below incorporates some of the sounds I've begun creating for show. This piece was quickly thrown togther to see how some of the sounds will work togtether and how they might come together in a musical context. The sounds at start of the piece will eminate from the field of small speakers spread over the floor.
A selection of small speakers.
