"Holding the Lavender Twilight" is a sonic soother by Sille Kima, holding space for ourselves and the bodies of others while going through the phase shift from light to darkness each recurring twilight. 

The performance, starting at 16:43, nautical twilight in the coastal town of Pavilosta, explores the capacity of tenderness to guide affection through phases of change.

"Or, when we listen to music, we must refuse the idea that music happens only when the musician enters and picks up an instrument; music is also the anticipation of the performance and the noises of appreciation it generates and the speaking that happens through and around it, making it and loving it, being in it while listening. And so, when we refuse the call to order – the teacher pick- ing up the book, the conductor raising his baton, the speaker asking for silence, the torturer tightening the noose – we refuse order as the distinction between noise and music, chatter and knowledge, pain and truth."  
- Jack Halberstam, from the introduction to "The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study" by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney.

18.12.2021 Pavilosta, Latvia.

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Holding The Lavender Twilight (live performance @Pavilosta 18.12.2021)

Blue After (Demo)

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Created at the open workshop by participants, assembled by Sille Kima at Kreenholm open garden in Narva, Estonia, in late August 2022, out of collectively gathered field recordings.

The track one of two pieces that will stay as a sound installation near the garden until the beginning of the next gardening cycle in spring 2023 – as a reminder of the warm and abundant harvest of August.

Along walking and listening, we learned how to move our bodies while recording tender sounds and how the space of deep listening to ones’ surroundings brings us to enmeshment with ourselves, each other and the Earth. Much like searching for and picking wild raspberries makes one supple and tender around the prickiness of its thorns.

With the kind support of Narva Art Residency, Kreenholm Plants, Cultural Ministry of Estonia and Estonian Cultural Endowment.

Kreenholm buzz (Ambient Mix)

Angels Trumpet :: Trust (live @Frikirkjan)

War Crimes (live @Frikirkjan)

What Does Yr Love (live @Frikirkjan)

4-channel ambisonic sound installation for an exhibition at Kanal Galerii. The voiceover is in Estonian.

2023
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4-kanaline ruumiline heliinstallatsioon näitusele Kanal Galeriis. Helipala tekst on eesti keeles.

2023

More brilliant than light, more luminous than bright (sonic embrace for exhibition @Kanal Galerii)

Commissioned for "Elemental sounds" radio programme for Montez Press Radio and aired on 25.01.2024. https://radio.montezpress.com/#/show/3257

Based on the poem "Countless" by Sille Kima.

countless
countless bodies on the streets 
sipping coffee
walking dogs
sitting in silence
appreciating the beauty of the world
lying there cold and forgotten
not seen and unseen
forgotten and forgotten
on everyones lips
the passerby behind the fence
the crack in your lovers voice
the silence of roads never not busy
the violence of bodies
bodies bodies 
claiming land claiming bodies holding their own bodies expressing calm
expressing quiet
locally grown not yet harvested 
violations
streets 
the sun is setting too soon
the sun is fine and never has there been any story denying it
yet violence comes
is it in the sun we bask in
is it in the words 
the hopelessness we cannot express in any way but breaking down getting angry
breaking into angry fighting for ourselves
at what cost
at what cost
where is the limit
where do I become you and you become someone else and silence
and bodies and bodies and silence and where the end comes it comes unwanted uncalled for
to entangle oneself is to entangle with love and let all light pass you through
all sun quiet down 

(before you go numb)

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Blue Moon (with Alphabet Shadow)

that creature on a rock you saw in a wet forest singing you a lullaby, a mirror left out on the field, a howling heart in twilight
a puppet
a scapegoat
a spark

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