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NY Arrival

The Day That Was Yesterday

Headed off to Congress of Collectives, spending 8 hours in the air watching things that can’t be unseen. Things slid into difference, time became spongy, water tasting strange, restrooms and sidewalks. We got to Flux Factory and Doug blasted us with the itinerary as we stared with dazed blank eyes.

We joined in with the Flux communal meal and met a few of the others, then started to experience the different pace of events as the time between the meal and the band stretched like processed American cheese. Tiredness took over before they started but we remote viewed the performance as we settled into where we were staying, toy instruments and electronic buzzing bouncing off the gallery walls.

Glitch Dérive

Process:
(1) Engage in a collective drifting around city centre areas, which is recorded POV, while listening to pre-recorded drone music.
(2) Edit video footage to include the drone track and copy to VHS tape.
(3) Return to site of drifting, unspool tape and kick it around for a bit.
(4) Re-spool tape and transfer to computer.
(5) Make video file from anything captured.

Shown as part of the Birmingham GLI.TC/H event curated by Antonio Roberts

Samekhmem

There has always been and will always be Samekhmem.
Seek not to understand the birth of Samekhmem.
True comprehension of this is beyond regular thought.
Place your mind, instead, in the center of the universe and allow yourself to dwell in the infinite.
When you know Samekhmem, you will realise that you have always known Samekhmem.
This truth extends beyond all imaginable constraints.
You will know the eternal message of Samekhmem.
It has always been heard by you and you will always be part of it.

Samkhmem are performers of the Sacred Eternal Drone – a perpetual vibration that has always been and will always continue. This is both a performance fiction and a genuine proposition, without contradiction. They protect the Ark of Silence, the source of un-sound that creates space for the Sacred Eternal Drone to flow continuously through time. By participating in the sacrament, a rite of separation, the congregation enter into the collective mystery of the Sacred Eternal Drone.

Samekhmem offer a meditative environment for the audience’s inner journey, before words, before music. By using ‘remote listening’, fans can experience past and future Samekhmem performances, which exist in flux between eternal duration and linear time.

View the future-viewing, participatory fan blog here:
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