gutshaker

Sitting on a floor made of rough wooden planks. Above me a concrete shell of a deconsecrated chapel.The reading session has begun – citing the finest chapters of the Revelation. The very start is a news coverage of a trial of Balkan War criminals, served by a female voice – a synthesized voice, roughly as warm as liquid nitrogen.

The war criminal content smoothly shades into passages from the Old Testament. The voice recedes, giving way to something distant but inevitably coming closer and closer. It could be traffic pulsing at a spagetti junction, but soon it gains more power, turning into continuous din of thunder.

The sound starts touching the audience, at first very gently, but then, with the growing intensity, it is rather irrational slapping and I give up searching for comparisons the moment the vibrations invade my body. Their hectic frequency makes my eyes slip out of focus,the interior of the chapel turns into a TV image suffering from poor reception. We face wind coming from the floor – a sound gale trying to re-arrange our entrails.

Earthshaker (sound performance)

particles staging a friendly match (live report)

…and there is the blue one, being the first to spot the olive one, though she is not able to turn in her direction and keep her in sight. The moment she attemps that, she steps in the pink one’s way, which leads to identical reaction of the green and olive ones. The blue one, however, is not about to give up her discovery and releases the pink one who unites with the remaining couple in form of a gravity cluster. This doesn’t last too long and the initial try to make it to some symmetry turns back to chaos again. Reaching the final, at least one of the particles must stay in motion, or at least pretend that. The players in order of appearance: the green one – sterile and mechanical, the olive one – with a thought stranded on her lips, the blue one – conscious, the pink one – containing all. The surface does not necessarily have to match the interior as well as the rule stick to inflexibility.
system + rothko (dance)