Counting | Shaking [1998-2002] grew out of a solo saxophone improvisation using a digital delay, created for dancer Tara Bollard's work Reclaiming Spirit. This expanded version with voice and cello and was written for the 1998 dance/music performance five over three and is a homage to French poet/Artist Henri Michaux’ mescal inspired journeys into his own neural pathways.
In 2002 I began working with the Tissue Culture & Art group (oron catts, ionat zurr & guy ben-ary) at SymbioticA an art-science research unit at UWA. There was a strong connection between this work’s text and organic musical development and that of the living cells images that are the focus of TC&A’s work. I constructed this movie as a kind of Score for the music from images tracing the ebbs and flows of a culture of fish neurons.
lyrics
a hole is burnt through the sky
and through this tiny hole the world begins to empty
time stops moving forward and circles
I am heavy this is the wrong place
submerged
dreaming in faded black and white slow mo
the boundries of these dreams constantly contracting
until the same pale image flashes again and again ever more slowly and even the screen gradually closes its eye
o submarine o voice from the bottom of the sea
counting shaking strange tides redraw my boundries shaking strange tides
my eyes are open and colour is returning to the world
words return digging their roots deep into the earth
counting over and over
until the numbers fill the sky
the world turns so slowly
shaking always rolling forward on these strangely twisted rails that refuse to travel the middle path
'come with me' says the darkly flickering angel this way to the fast world this way to the howl of memory this way to the explosion of colour and scent
these moments falling away screaming away now ripping away
dark angels of my body travel slowly and don't open your eyes
spinning against the constant wall the stretched version of reality from which these angels escape and travel with their dangerous speed toward the shadow of movement
I'm coming back to you
wait for me in that frozen stillness let me join you
then roll the film
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