Moving, in folds

A work in sound, song, score. To listen to, to do with. Both solitary and shared. On resonances and returnings, on what recurs across a life course.
For the Garden, Bergen Museum of Natural History.

Guidance

This work is ideally to be listened to using headphones, whilst moving through the garden. The volume at which you listen should allow you to still hear the sound around you, the noises in the environment.

You will be invited to make sound yourself, and you may see or hear other people sounding those invitations. The piece works best if you do not coordinate the start of your listening with others - simply begin when you are ready.

This guidance is suggested and not mandatory - you should experience the sound in a way that works best for you. If you want to listen in company or you are more comfortable finding a place to sit, please do - it might be best if that’s a quiet place. If you do not have headphones, hold a phone to your ear.

This work is approximately 30 minutes in duration.

Translations, of spoken instruction from Norwegian to English

1. Your body is a boundary and a route, between terrains that cannot be navigated.

2. Find a solitary place. Sing one thing gently, wordlessly, a single note or more, into this space in front of you.

3. Perhaps thick soft bark absorbs sound and creates a silence. If you encounter spongy silence, re-wild a whisper of a recurring event to its safety.

4. Stop. Holding your left hand in front of you, level with your chin, click your fingers slowly, six times.

5. What do you see - outside the windows and at the end of the bed?

6. Disconnect your headphones. Allow the remaining sound to play into the environment you are moving through.

Credits and Thanks

Spoken instructions in Norwegian translated from English and read by Jenny Berger Myhre. Saxophone improvisation by John RV Harries. Co-produced and mixed by John V Harries. Everything else by Lisa Busby.

Features short phrases, repurposed, from Time Lived, Without its Flow (Denise Riley) and Travels with Charley (John Steinbeck).