The performances we undertook were not necessarily the most important part of the work, an audience for these in immediacy is not exactly necessary, the performances are a process for the documentation, the documentation thus acts as an extension of performance rather than being a relic, we are interested in the ‘After-event’.
If you think about it, it seems natural to perform with these two materials that have at one time caressed each other in their environmental condition and will now caress each other in their use as an artistic material.
Rain pays no attention to which direction of the river it falls onto, it falls on all surfaces and on all directions of flow. Instead I feel the notion of ontology of flow should be acknowledged closer to the mechanics of an actual river.
How can you describe a sound without mentioning the vessel it has departed from? I’ll start by walking on egg shells. It’s difficult to manifest sound within writing as there is not a language for it but perhaps through my murmurings I can try to conjure the sound in your head. Sound isn’t just a physical presence and we are capable of sustaining a relationship with sound through our reconjuring. I encourage you to print out this murmur and spend five minutes crumpling it in your hand, through this exchange maybe I can transport sound from one vessel to another. Perhaps it has already departed from many different vessels, but it has managed to sustain its aural persona. The sound is a companion to the vessel, but it is not a quality of that vessel, it can escape and re-attach itself to other vessels, it is living through a cast of its own shadow.
