Nostalgic ears listened through their selves, finding orbit in each other; muted, anonymous noise welcomed.
An intimate resonance sheltered through seclusion,
contorted sounds of adolescence only recognisable to earlier modes of auscultation.
Subdued expression through elongation, hiding and revealing saturation through blankness.
Still lifes turning their selves inside out, then.
I repeatedly echo: ‘Can’t you write your own songs?’
Momentarily filtered through Hekate, the disintegrating duo find rhythm, pulses and beatings of resonance, some feasibly owned but mainly borrowed.
Muted, anonymous noise in the hotel room; not mine this time. I knew my ears would be dislodged, now they whir, unable to listen to each other, but their suspension is held.
They listen with, I listen with; orbits of fragile resonance now creating chambers within each other.
((They hold, I hold;
they tend, I tend;
they resonate, I resonate;
they listen with, I listen with)).
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Written for Luxembourg Composition Academy 2023 as part of rainy days festival. Performed by United Instruments: two violins, bass clarinet, bass flute, piano, and tape. Premiered at neimënster, 25 Nov 2023, and produced by Tritone Studios.