On Liberty

She said, 
'I am a vessel
For a love with no borders
Unanimity of patience
And reasonable tolerance
No subversion will coerce my action
No coercion will subvert my thought'

I stood in awe of the brazen dissentient
And so I removed my tacit consent
None over another is deserving commandant
And my being was roused by such bold sentiment

She said, 
'To speak of freedom 
In the discourse of this system
Is to speak of the freedom to conform and contort
My patience and tolerance finds its reasonable ending 
At disingenuous constructs for the confinement of thought'

For a while I was silent
Contemplating my own mind
Till my own mind through reason compelled me to demand
'We have not disappeared
You mutilators of nature
We believers of liberty innate in the man'

© John Lowndes 2014
Image © Chantelle Valentin 2015, based on 'Liberty leading the People' by Eugene Delacroix.

On Liberty (demo) - Radio Edit

Stereo mix of Dust Bunny(originally mixed for 8 channel surround for performance at Audiovisual Arts Festival 2013, Corfu). Part of the larger Fragments of the Ship Canal Project - available in full at https://patchworkrattlebag.bandcamp.com/album/fragments-of-the-ship-canal-project 

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Extra voice by Jon Coupe 
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Dust Bunny: Solidify the Fragments or Disperse?

Spawn in silence, semi-swimming abjectly unsighted
And chancing upon attraction, we coagulate
In the corners, beneath the framework
Aggregates collide to form this
How spectre defied curve
Sets order, lay A-B
We bond while
n fnd,
s

© Patchwork Rattlebag

Dust Bunny

This is a recording of an improvised performance at the Digital Performance Lab, MediaCityUK (University of Salford Campus) by a mixed ensemble of musicians from Bologna and Salford, including two members of Patchwork Rattlebag. 

Conducted/lead by Francesco Giomi (Conservatorio di Musica, Bologna & Tempo Reale) http://www.giomi.net/

Tom Carney - Bass 
Federico Cataldo - Laptop
Michele Ratatoskr Foresi - Laptop & violin
Adam Hart - Guitar
Lewis Jones - Percussion, vocals & text
John Lowndes - Guitar & text
Valerio Maiolo - Laptop, text & harmonica
George Meikle - Laptop
Manoli Moriaty - Laptop

Collaborative Improvisation Performance (led by Francesco Giomi, featuring 3 of our band members)

Bokononist

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Also available at https://patchworkrattlebag.bandcamp.com/album/and-what-le-danse-de-linconsequence-de-la-vie-et-la-mort

...and what? (le danse de l'inconsequence de la vie et la mort)

Live at Angel Field Festival 2019 (BBC 6 Music Fringe). 

A & J play OK.

A Book On My Shelf (live at Angel Field Festival 25/03/19)

Live at Angel Field Festival 2019 (BBC 6 Music Fringe).

A & J play OK.

Image by Chantelle Valentin

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