This initial sequence of the practice serves as an overall structure from which to embark. Working at first through the stages with a certain directionality, step by step, starting out with mapping, then sampling, then sharing and so on ... [1]
Then, taking steps into a more circulatory approach, in order to try one's way through iterations of mapping, sampling, sharing etc. Still keeping in line with a sort of sequential orientation, one stage at a time ...
Then, opening up sequences toward a more dynamic cyclicity. Inviting dis/orientations of the practice. Feeling one's way through twists and turns, leaps and loops, calling for a multidirectional awareness ...
Then, laying out this multidirectionality in a topography of the practice, connecting its grounds, its passages of play, lines of flight ...
Opening up to the manifold ways of playing and being played, co-affective, reciprocal, not one nor two ways. Traversing, taking steps, making rounds, searching grounds, careful not to trample over matters. Taking also a careful step back from our doings, in trying to listen for other nuances within the practice ...
And more concretely, configuring the stages with a register of qualitative notions, that also give resonance to a range of ethical aspects of the practice. Trying then to approach these as different modalities in the very practicing of the practice, as to be ...
Trying to hear this stacking as a chord, cluster, a pile of harmonics, co-resonant of the various qualitative notions and nuances of the practic as a whole, together-sounding ...
Still attuned to the collective resonance, trying also to unfold further permutations, where qualities can be transposed and reconfigured across the register. Stacking up new piles, changing combinations, intonations, temperaments, tunings. Still, approaching these as concrete possibilities: sampling carefully, listening thoughtfully, embodying wakefully ...
Laying out the stacking horizontally as well, connecting strands into a continuum, of ...
~ mapping ~ sampling ~ sharing ~ embedding ~ embodying ~ listening ~
A continuum also resonant of the qualitative subtones, as for the practice to be(come) ...
~ soundful ~ thoughtful ~ suspenseful ~ careful ~ playful ~ wakeful ~
Swaying across this horizon, from side to side, again and again, wakefully, playfully, carefully, suspensefully, thoughtfully, soundfully ...
Then, connecting stages, strands, notions, nuances, in a continuously dynamic topology of the practice, listening for different constellations of the approaches ...
This topology of practice, heard also in its intrawoven entanglement, or at least, a becoming-entangled, where a mapping approach is already also a listening practice, and a process of sharing, of embedding
and embodying, co-reciprocal, intra-active.
[1] For more in depth descriptions of the practice stages, please go to Practice Grounds II, also linked to at the bottom of this page (>>>).