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release # 49
Silent Spring Within volume I-IX by Perimeter O
”Whence things have their coming-into-being
So they have their passing-away
For they pay recompense to one another
For their injustice, according to the ordering of time”
-Anaximander-
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A slow alteration, like grief grows and exists. Silent speed, silent expansion, silentl
taking over, silently zigzagging over the surface. A slowly implosion. Blackbirds at the first light, and in the darkling hour. A tuneful, yet melancholic heartfelt sound that strikes in time penetrating a filterless state of mind. It`s consequences; leaving mellow traces, their rhythms growing wild above.
What could be heard?
Other than an effort or an attempt to record a landslide of the ”I”
Where there is an attempt; there is always a chance of failure.
A slow expansion of a shadow, growing in size, with a strong profile, embracing both the penumbra and its umbra. To hear sound cast a ray of light into the surrounding darkness [black]? To hear a shadow? Not glowing nor vibrant but mellow, lusterless, shaded even subtle. What will its sound become tomorrow?
Volumes twist and twine together- not tangled or clustered like a knot, but rather silently crisscrossing from one frame of mind to another.
And the grain of the voice?[ Roland Barthes] What is said, what was said, to be said? Instead?
An allusion, intimation, a signifier - a clue wrapped in haze.
Collectable as particles, saved in a glass container, but then immediately become vague and vanish. Are they slight suggestions of whispers? Of trial and tribulations- one trace, an evidence of someones travail?
And then, during the quiet parts?
There will still be sounds - Silounds [Corita Kent] The high tone heard, is it your nervous system?The low tone, your bloodstream? Rushing in circles, not concerned with edges, no up or down, north or west, no linearity but a logic. [Ann Carson ”On hesitation”]
I remember a time, on the other side of the city I now live in.
At dusk, I recorded a crowd of crows, and observed how they gathered in groups as a habit of protection. I re-listened; could it be, for that time being, that their ”craws” also then resembled a sound of an alarming, rashy, severe message, like the one I now noticed? A message portraying or epitomizing a warned misfortune of human being, of
nature?
I can`t remember, just can`t remember.
Elucidate-Evoke-Recount
Sound
From Memory
[Memory in sound]
The title Silent Spring [Within] is borrowed by Rachel Carsons book «Silent Spring» Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist, writer and conservationist specially known for her books «Sea triology» and «Silent spring» «Silent Spring» describes the harmful effects and destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides on the environment. The book is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement in the 40`s and 50´s.
The recording heard in Silent Spring Within volume I is the voice of David Wojnarowicz. David Wojnarowicz was an artist, AIDS activist and a leading figure in the east village art scene of the 1980´s and early 90´s.
The recordings are transcribed and collected in the book «Weight of the earth» The tape journals of David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992)
Produced and mixed by Perimeter O
Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
Text by Pernille Meidell
Released by Breton Cassette May 2025/#049
Limited edtion 20