Polka For Feedback And Grinding Steel

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method: Sending back and forth, reworking and creating in collaboration with re-evolution café orchestra who composed all the music and played all the instruments. To enjoy more, listen here:  https://soundcloud.com/re-evolution_cafe. Apart from the poem, I added field recordings and partook in the editing.
narration: I live in a region that is home to some space industry – more importantly however, this region is also home to marvellous nature. This poem is nourished by many concepts and theories, most notably the colonial ideology of space as the „new frontier“ as well as Whiteheads „fallacy of misplaced concreteness“ and Nagel‘s thoughts expressed in „What is it like to be a bat“. It is also fed by the human-tamed beauty of reed landscapes around lake Federsee which can be seen in the photo I took.

gedicht / copyright jo richter:

welch unvorstellbare macht
muss die masse im erdkern
beleben, das wasser, die erde,
die wurzeln sicher zu halten

zu wahren, die landschaftsfalten
wie eine große gebärde
ins weltall zu richten, das fern
sternlicht um sternlicht entfacht

des tags wuchert das grün
höher und höher empor
bis der wind braune samen
biosphärenweit streut

welch wuchskraft, die sich nicht scheut
sich bis zum astralen
zu wenden aus schwarztiefem moor,
anarchisch und kühn

so müsse auch mensch sich recken,
heißt es, sich loszulösen,
zu den sternen zu streben,
geballte planetenmassen

mit erdensproßsinnen zu fassen,
sich aus den symbiosen zu heben
und seine bedürfnisblößen
xenobiotisch zu decken

welch trugschluss, den leib
dort zu bewegen, wo geist
sich angleicht und fragt: wie
ist es, so zu erleben

die saat darf und muss schweben,
sich aus massewucht lösen, die
sie hielt, doch wie weit sie auch reist,
das schilf, das sie treibt, verbleibt



interlinear rendition:
reeds at lake federsee // what incomprehensible power / has to inspire the mass in earth‘s core/ to hold, to keep the water, the earth / and the roots securely // the folds of the landscape / akin to a giant gesture / directed into the cosmos which lights / star after star in the distance // during the day, the lush green rises / higher and higher / until the wind distributes brown seeds / across the biosphere // what power of growth, not hesitating / to turn towards the stars / from the black deep of the moor / anarchic, courageous // thus man would have to strech as well / people say, to loosen their ties / per aspera ad astra / to measure dense planet masses // with earth-grown senses / detach themselves from symbioses / and cover their bare and many needs / with xenobiosis // what a fallacy of misplaced concreteness to move the body / where the mind adapts and queries / what it is like / to experience like that // mind‘s pollen may and will hover / free itself from the power of mass which / had held it but however far it will travel /  the reed that grows it remains where it is //

schilf am federsee -  with re-evolution café orchestra

DRUMAX No. 29 // SPACE PATROL // What exactly is going on out there?
@docfritz // Composition, Arrangement, Soundscapes, Rhythmic Design, Mix & Production
@joerxworx // Tenor Saxophone
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SPACE PATROL

DRUMAX No. 29 // SPACE PATROL

Don't look now
But there's a fifty foot woman
Marching toward
Your favorite city

She looks mad
Muttering something about the guts
You never had...

There was a time when your charm set off alarms
Among the young women in your circle
But you played them so aloof
And now they're tearing off your roof
To reach in and grab you not so tenderly
And as you twist and shout, 'Oh, no, it wasn't me!'
They whip their hair back to drink in your distress
And laugh with abandon at your helplessness!

You may wake up to find it was just a dream
Or maybe you've discovered your new reality
The hearts you're breaking, the liberties you're taking 
May catch up with you
In a midnight rendezvous
May catch up with you
in a late show rendezvous...

March of the 50 Foot Women

Distorted Realms (featuring Trevtronic)

Won't Be The Same Without You - Eleyan Di Palma

Do That THING!

🕯The closer the connect...The sweeter the light radiates. 🤍❣🤍

The Pupil Of Love

The Light In Your Eyes

noxpox - Fata Morgana

Eres perfecta

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