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This collaboration is a part of Dolly's upcoming work Quest)ion).
I wrote Distance Traces for Garth late in the spring of 2019. We were working on some sound pieces which also feature in Quest)ion) at the time, collaborating at a distance from my place in England and his in South Africa. When I sent him the words Garth said that he saw a kind of mirror effect with what was expressed that could apply to him too, and suggested we do something collectively with the piece, perhaps both recording ourselves reading it and overlaying the two recordings. This is what happened.
lyrics
A skip, dance, distance traces
making gentle magic in the webs that entangle us,
electric mycelium. Other side of the world, collaboration friend,
down one curved axis, that space, that, always calling...
Your dance, silence, held in hands,
bows and shifts,
spacious depths,
quick jumps. A soft sad distance
would seem
inevitable at a time like this, your mother
to the light. Occurrences that I am yet to learn.
Our strange dances,
to be sent by you, now, sound happenings. I
do this work in a crooked, open living room on the
coast of this amorphous Albion as summer
is iccumn in, repetitions, gentle leaps, deep
feeling goes unmentioned, I said too much before but oh, say it. You
not here of course, holding space in autumnal Khoisanland, SA.
We cannot share it, this work/play space, not yet,
strange chasm, to trust the threads,
and even in writing this expression snared
in unknown, sure, that unfathomed unknown is just fine, but more so
in interruptions, those sticky time webs,
ghostly trails of long dead
beings, still they walk the earth. Our lives. And this
to hold them, in stillness and in movement, to allow process. Differently. Isn’t it?
Unverified personal gnosis to give it some kind of name, that thing from one who knows you very well. Ideas that flow like
water from deep in far out,
that mountainside in Italy, need a careful hand to be
their deep alchemy. And I need
simple courage, humility. What is it
reclaiming
your deep time heritage? From brutal centuries only, plastic sticklebricks,
systematic monsters.
Our strange strands, woven. Deep
secret, stories, skiffleboards...
those pantheons of trickster beings, rituals, visitations. Grounding in place and taking off. Ties
around the world, always surprises. New times.
An ocean pull to share experience,
and here we are: this world, this cosmos,
wound on same path, maze,
string, lint, desert trail, forest trail,
labyrinth. Show us so we can understand. Dancing
journey deeper, oceans and storms,
open heart, home is (where the) heart (is),
space, endless, dream, be,
love.
surrender.
credits
released April 21, 2020
A collaboration between Garth Erasmus and Dolly Turing
Garth is a visual artist and musician who makes and plays instruments based on indigenous knowledge systems. He is part of Khoi Khonnexion, the group of South African First Nation activists.
Dolly works with poetry, sound, play, ritual, magic. They are working on two evolving solo projects, Quest)ion) and Play Stance (out soon on Polyversity Press).
Quest)ion) is a poetry meets soundscape ritual about ties to and love for places: real and imaginary, spirits, stories and nothingness. A thread runs through it exploring her connection to Southern Africa, where her parents are from. What responsibilities do our ancestors leave us with? What is belonging? What is ‘home’?
A multi-everything process, transformation instigator, sound explorer, poet, collection of entities, magician and
improviser, currently based in Brighton, UK. Sound, poetry, play, processing and ritual. With others including bands God's Teeth and Interstellar Tropics, Thee Hairee Kuntz....more
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