Contemplative Shit is a soundwalk with headphones. Poetry and soundscape transport you through the drains underground, through river systems, history and bacterial life beyond our bodies. This 20 minute piece can be experienced while you walk from the old water tower in Gnesta, by the Sigtuna river to the sewerage works or online wherever you are. For map and more info: www.funguskingdom.org/the-shit-project/konst-art

Poetry and voice: Julia Adzuki
Soundscape: Tomas Björkdal
Swedish translation: Helena Hildur W.

Contemplative Shit

Kontemplativ Skit är en soundwalk med hörlurar. Poesi och ljudlandskap transporterar dig genom avloppet under jorden, genom flodsystem, bakterie liv och våra kroppar. 
Ljudvandringen kan upplevas med start från det gamla vattentornet i Gnesta, längs Sigtunaån och fram till avloppsverket. Eller med start var du än befinner dig. Tid: 20 min. 
För mer info och karta: https://funguskingdom.se/the-shit-project/konst-art

Poesi och röst: Julia Adzuki
Ljudlandskap: Tomas Björkdal
Svensk översättning: Helena Hildur W.

Kontemplativ Skit

the body is collective
constellations of branches lacing space
I – we – can dissolve our flesh at any moment
let the air wander through the fractal cloud of us 
living is community – I am many – teaming with life 
light drinking cells woven with fungal filaments 
Cladonia stellaris, from leichein – to lick 
bronchial body clouding rock
sifting water from air

Lichen song 8.6.25

An exploration of acoustic resonance and kinaesthetic reverberation in three parts, A Soma Sonata is part of an on-going experiential research into being as vibrational matter. 
Together with Deniz Soyarslan, Kefas Berlin, Aina Neela Ferri, Sandra Karinsdotter, Ulf Wätte, Jennica Ring and Julia Adzuki. 
Voice, gongs, singing bowl and wood chimes. 
Concept - Julia Adzuki
Sound Score - Kefas Berlin

Part 3 - Watertower
A shower of chorus of bodies of water. In a space originally built for the transmission of water to the surrounding community, a collaboration of echoes of voices now resound. This is a very early sharing of a growing group exploration, with an interest in reactivating the site as one of flow and vitality. A kinaesthetic experience of elemental composition.

A Soma Sonata is part of Julia Adzuki's Masters presentation in New Performative Practices at DOCH / Stockholm University of the Arts. 

Recorded in Gnesta Watertower on May 12th 2017 by George Nakas.