Month: December 2024
A day in the land
A Morse Code of Action and Rest
Radio as Radical Education
//— THE DREAM
welcome to chest
today the sky is filled with one unbroken cloud
the light is yellow outside
and in here too
last night i had a dream
I was in a forest up north
night was falling,
and it was the middle of the summer, so the night falls for a very long time
the light was blue
and my vision was very sharp
I could see the details of everything all at once
there was an elevated ridge up ahead with some sparse trees
and a silhouette walking towards me
very far away, I could only just see it
it was my friend walking
i was so happy to see her, perhaps she would tell me a story, something funny
she tripped and as she steadied herself
I realised it was the neighbour, an old man walking
it seemed like he couldn’t see very well in the dark
he was looking down trying to make out the edges of the roots of the trees
and he tripped and fell over onto the ground and as he rose
I realised it was a child walking
the small child i had seen in the supermarket the day before
he walked faster now with more confidence and
as he got closer I realised he was a dog walking on his hind legs
balanced and
staggering and falling
and then rising again
unbalanced
I couldn’t work out why it wasn’t walking on all fours
like dogs usually do
i squinted to try and see if it had some injury in its front legs
and saw it was a pair of birds
one bird above the other
the upper one pecking or maybe feeding the one below
both with flapping wings
and long necks
they looked like cranes
i couldn’t hear them but i imagined the squawking
and feathers rushing against the air
i held their silhouettes in my focus as they tumbled closer
their edges were slippery like something in the distance on a very hot day
they descended further down the ridge and onto the plateau between us
and the light changed and suddenly they were illumated from all sides
their fronts finally came into view
and I realised it was us
me and ellem
walking
and i was so happy to see us
we were 2 animals, clear, heavy
walking straight and easy through the trees
and between us was this third animal
it had the density of a shadow
and these curly edges
and i knew this animal was lovely
and I called it o-n-e-p
and like a perfect coincidence
this dream
it rhymed with an album I listened to
in the morning its called the sky in your eyes
by an old friend Emma Bathgate and collaborator Steph OHara
such sweet synthesis
and like a perfect coincidence it rhymed
with a text me and Ellem have written together
called the third
and it is about
the third thing that arises when two beings synthesize
when two long to become one
and then a third thing arises
I want to play you some of this great album
and I wanna read some of this text
here it comes rolling
surrounded by some other synthesis:
3 long dreams of ICE,
a song by clarrissa connelly and by hannah schneider and by moin
and the sound of a wax sculpture dripping onto a metal sheet
let us begin with the first song on the album called the sky in your eyes
//— THE CHANT
Why am i here?
I am here because you are here….
no two minds ever come together without thereby, creating a third, invisible, in-tangible force which may be likened to a third mind
who is the third that walks beside us?
.
Why am i here?
I am here because you are here….
no two animals ever come together without thereby, creating a third, invisible, in-tangible force which may be likened to a third animal
who is the third that walks beside us?
.
Why am i here?
I am here because you are here….
no two hands ever come together without thereby, creating a third, invisible, in-tangible force which may be likened to a third hand
who is the third hand waving to?
.
Why am i brave
I am brave because you are brave
No two rivers ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible river which may be likened to the name courage
Who is the water running beside us?
.
Why am i long
I am here because you are long
No two friends ever come together without thereby creating a third invisible friend who may be likened to a longing
Who is the third friend that walks beside us?
.
why am i here?
I am here because you are here….
no two voices ever come together without thereby, creating a third, invisible, in-tangible force which may be likened to a third voice
Who does this voice belong to?
.
Why am i sad
I am sad because you are sad
Why am i looking out
I am looking out this window because you are looking out the window
No two windows ever look out at each other without creating a third invisible intangible force which may be likened to a new window
Who is looking from this new window?
.
Why am i shy
I am shy because you are shy
Why am i flying away
I am flying away because you are flying away
No two windows (meadows) ever come together without thus creating a third invisible intangible force
A force that is strong enough to break out of its own
A force that appears in the shape of a new meadow
we are shy in the shape of a meadow
we are shy enough to shape it
Who is it?
Who is the third that walks beside us on this meadow?
Who is the third that makes us shy on the meadow?
.
Why are we here?
We are here because the third is here
why are we soft
We are soft because the meadow is soft
No meadow is ever created
Without thus creating a third invisible intangible force
a force that is strong enough to break it
A force that appears in the shape of a meadow
We are soft in the shape of a meadow
We are soft enough to break it
Who is it
Who is the force that softens us on the meadow?
.
Why am i shy
I am shy because you are shy
Do you wanna lie down here?
I wanna lie down here if you wanna lie down here
No we is ever created without thus creating a third invisible intangible force
a force that is strong enough to lie down here
A force which may be likened to softness
Who is soft enough to be here?
(Who is shy enough to be here
/soft/windy/brave)
Why am i here?
I am here because you are here….
no two voices ever come together without thereby, creating a third, invisible, in-tangible force which may be likened to a third voice
Who does this voice belong to?