This was a live performance at mac Birmingham, recorded for the Radio 3 programme “The Verb” as part of their “Verb New Voices” initiative run in partnership with the Arts Council. I had the opportunity to work on a sequence of several new pieces with the help of Sean O’Brien, and the two you can [...]
April 30, 2011
Naxos Nobody ever thought to ask her where it was that the thread had come from, and at what cost. What were the things which she unravelled to make it easier for him to travel back and forth through complicated passages, and what they’d meant. What were the tales she would invent to justify the [...]
April 29, 2011
Plan B now open your eyes like a discussion see the sky red like a trumpet solo pick up your phone like you’ve met it in a bar push the buttons like political agendas press the receiver to your temple like a gun choose words like they’re careers for life make promises like lucky escapes [...]
April 28, 2011
Special Effects After some conversations, there is a palpable sense that they were little more than a dance around the unspeakable, a knot in the throat, a savage reaching for things to say before the abrupt end, on a cliche, leaving loose ends untied. A laughable attempt to salvage plot. And then you leave like [...]
April 27, 2011
Szum The wind passes through branches and leaves. No name for this here. I make do with conifers crashing, forest static, shrub sough, bough hum.
April 26, 2011
The Point Of It All So. I once built a tower of Lego bricks so high that it had to lean against a wall or collapse. So high that I had to stand on a chair I’d put on a wobbly desk just so I could place the final piece. I then stood back to [...]
April 25, 2011
Articulations A shifting swarm of starlings stretches and stirs over the city. Below, a young man covers the side of a train in spray paint, smearing colours to achieve gradients, willing the minutes to bend so he can finish his outlines before the carriage moves. Later, the freshly painted train emerges from a tunnel and [...]
April 24, 2011
Quickly Now This full moon is an empty signal for superheroes with no symbols or totem animals. Boring, persistent, rugged saviors, ready to get you out of danger, and to restore your lost belief in their ideals. Quickly, now, to the blank mobile.
April 23, 2011
The Migratory Habits of Birds One of those things: start looking for something, get distracted, and forget what it was that you had set out to find, and why. Now, do you keep on looking, and expect that the object of your search will become evident on sight? Or do you hope that maybe as [...]
April 22, 2011
The Triple Jumper “The triple jump is ultimately pointless.” – Youtube comment “The triple jump is NOT A REAL JUMP!” – Facebook group sports were banned when martial law was declared the authorities wary of crowds united by athletes winning games breaking records he refused to cave he kept training in a clandestine triple jump [...]
January 10, 2012
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