Constellation: Sensuous Drive
The sensuous drive is the fundamental human impulse rooted in our physical existence, time-bound nature, and sensory experience.
A Slow Ablution
Source: Movement of Whale by SevenDoors. Whale – Part I Whale burps noisily along, patter of footsteps and the stink of his brain, unhappy alliance… …Take me down to the underground… An old song, memory’s reject, the underground, wisp of bounce, uncoiled spring crawls up leg, welcome thought, welcome thought, freshening of the grey. Slide…
Skin Game
Source: I Remember by Baden Abroad Skin Game (Extract) The skin, white and flickering, faintly moist in the bright light, taut around a skull in which two large sockets hold two dark orbs, irises deep and black. The skin fascinates, hums a reverberating message, plays an offbeat tune. I listen with my eyes. I won’t…
Formal Failings
Source: The End: I am not Here (Music for Toy Pianos) by Aestrid Byrne. Cecil and the Little Lord (Excerpt) The little lord stood before his looking glass, regaling his fine form. And it was not an arrogant waif wearing oversize breeches and an absurdly fancy hat that he saw (such as a less biased…
The City Without Organs
Source: A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley Lobe (Excerpt) …circumstances of a post-consumer society will in time mimic the effects of Lobe on an individual pre-social transformation. Society itself becomes the embodiment of a Lobe-induced perspective. With this marriage of the internal and external, the mode of maintaining the impetus of social change…
