R–e–s–o–n–a–n–c–e
Scores
Notes
Conversations
© Eric Thielemans
2022
STREAM Of FLOWWW
Statism
II:
From inside to out
And obviously also
The other way around
Or perhaps and even better BEING simultaneously BOTH
Both Inside and out
Your skin a membrane in between
Through being in touch with your body
As if in conversation
Pulsating
A pulsation created by the magnetism between the polarities of contraction
and expansion
Like a cell in your body
Breathing
Pulsing
Open-close, open-close
Yet YOU as awareness somehow detached from all that automatic activity
A perception of flow
A sense of time
suspended
Situated in a specific place
Yet everywhere
So rather
A space
and being in that space
moving through that space on the waves of time
or with time
or using time
leaving time
leaving traces behind, of your movement, as inscriptions
both
in that place and inside ourselves as memory
a residue of the dance
the movement
the trip made
experience
consciousness
being aware of your awareness
traces
residue
memory
and multiple ways of accounting for the traces
through different media
just a possibility
Flow of consciousness
Being aware of what’s going on inside your body
Where are the tensions situated?
What movement gives you pleasure?
What position gives you
joy
stillness
safety
consolation
pain
stress
restlessness
?
An interplay of resistance and flow
Doing generates flow
Movement = Not static!
Hence the movement in the so called static
Restless minds
Never allow for an ideal freeze or static
Escaping
Retrieving
Attacking
Freeze flight and fight all over again
:II
NOW
Read the section above once more
Slowly
very slowly
as if
between
II: and :II
NOW
Statism this part with your instrument(s) alone
and/or together with your friends
Breathe in
And play ANYTHING that comes up
and - as if using a loop pedal that you push in after one or just a few sounds
or after a small phrase -
Just play on auto loop that small soundbite
Over and over
replay it
repeat it
over and over
for as long as it takes for you to be able to detach from the body and find space
between you as awareness, as listener and you as player, playing these sounds
over and over
cross the boundaries of your want or need to change
feel the tension this creates in your body
while just keep on playing the same thing
over and over
and just take this tension withing you
with you
NOW
While repeating the one thing
As if breathing again
Breathe
And start playing another sound or sounds or phrase and repeat all over
Do this for 10 minutes minimum.