time is present in, 2013
printed poem and an audioh! piece, 04:12

Apparently it takes 4 mins 12 seconds to read all the words in English dictionary with time in it; time was present throughout.

I first performed this poem in July 2018 on my birthday, which was timely.

Time is present in

In August, Ish, Rebs,I, Bettina, Robin and Elif visited Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre in Liverpool, UK. (thank you James Elsey for introducing us💕) We each did an hour long mix to listen together in our allocated slots and chosen spots.

I was down to play mine on Friday evening. And after noticing that Friday evening immediately came with a certain (self-inflicted) Friday evening entertainment pressure, I wanted to make a mix to explore and challenge this initial expectation.

The drawing in the thumbnail image captures the feels and flow of it ~ it is a bit like a river, with streams coming in and out, at times without warning, quite abruptly, at times consistently, reconnecting with some previous threads.

Hope you enjoy it!

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Ps. In 2020, I came across an online event called “𝙉𝙚𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨: 𝙁𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙉𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙇𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙖𝙜𝙚” and that’s where I encountered Adam Wolfond’s work.

It had left such an impression on me, that after 2 years, when reflecting on how time is conventionally perceived and structured, I immediately, 🪨🌊🪨🌊🪨/recalled his poem: “𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙖𝙣…”

Adam and his mum kindly let me use his poem at the start of the mix and you can find more of his work at: 𝙬𝙬𝙬.𝙖𝙙𝙖𝙢𝙬𝙤𝙡𝙛𝙤𝙣𝙙.𝙘𝙤𝙢 & robin’s lovely mix on soundcloud (@𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙠𝙞𝙩) Others haven’t shared yet 🙃

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Trcacklist:

Fauzia - ‘When It's All Over’ (feat. Kelela)
Adam Wolfond - ‘Time is perceived by the appreciation of language, but I am pace of my body and not language’ read by Estée Klar at Neurodivergent Poetics: Four Nonspeaking Autistic Poets Reinvent Language

Zakir Hussain - ‘The Zen of Space’
Niagara - ‘Ano-A’

Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Weliin - ‘I’

Codona - ‘Codona Moon Dog’
Okay Temiz Oriental Wind - ‘Dere Geliyor’ extract from Budapest Festival concert

Leafor Legov - ‘Wild Is The Wind’ (final track from Live at Studio R) 
Barbar Streisand - ‘Wild Is The Wind’ 
David Bowie - ‘Wild Is The Wind’ 
Billy MacKenzie, Steve Aungle - ‘Wild Is The Wind’ 
Wild Is The Wind movie intro

The Caretaker - Libet’s Delay

Cousin - ‘B Moon’

Sweet Exorcist - ‘Testone’
AN VOKAL - ‘Dere Geliyor’ 
Johanna Billing - ‘Magical World’

Transcendental Love Machine - ‘Hypnotica’ (Arms of Shiva)

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Songs featuring keys woven together. Aimed for somewhat a playful and restorative mix at once ~ It's my first attempt at doing such a thing. Hope you enjoy it :>

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