Meridiana: Lines Toward a Non-local Alchemy by Søren Kjærgaard

“Meridiana: Lines toward a non-local Alchemy” investigates the line as a sonic, textual and visual phenomenon. Taking off from the four literary voices: the Dutch philosopher Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677), the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and the Chinese Taoists Lü Yan (796 C.E.) and Sun Buer (1119–1182 C.E.), a multitude of meanings are interwoven in a rich network of musical, textual and graphic lines. The line as a basic concept is emphasized by the first word of the title, Meridiana (plural for meridian), which has terminological roots in both the East and the West. In Western terminology, it denotes one geographical line connecting the North and South Pole. In the East, originating from ancient China, meridians (经络) are energy pathways of the body (both human and non-human), which connect internal organs and a number of vital points in a neurological network. The meeting between these two interpretations of a "meridian", between the geo-physical and sub-physical, between East and West, are the cornerstones of the project, which intention is to weave together the various meanings and emphases of meridian, while at the same time unfolding an expanding an intersection of lines: sonic lines, textual lines, graphic lines.

Meridiana: Lines Toward A Non-local Alchemy

Introduction

The process in making the covers involved a series of stages parallel to making the album booklet and producing the vinyls.

The album covers had to be set up in a way which included basic information (tracks, side A and B, titles etc.) and still leave blank space the hand-made graphics to be applied

Step 1. "Blank" cover printed in 300 copies with basic information before ink is applied by stick and hand

Step 2. Setting up the blank covers in groups of 12 which make up a canvas, also to be seen as a plane or terrain which awaits further circuitry.

Recordings

Publications

Step 3. Applying black ink on the canvas by use of sticks, piano strings and rake. The tranversal lines of ink cut across and beyond the cover frames, connecting the covers in a region of intersecting lines (meridians).

Video from the session

Step 4. Drying (72 hours)

Step 5. Applying circular shapes (full circles, half circles and in-between) with black and red ink on the covers by use of cups, glasses and bowls of different sizes. Where the straight intersecting lines make up varying degrees of longitudal and latitudal lines, the circles represent the global aspect of the meridians.

Step 6. Finishing of the inking process by putting our initials on each cover by stamp.

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