Sound holes
November 25, 2019How might a whale hear?
Where might a whale die?
These questions come from different points of enquiry (inside and outside). I think in order find the bones, or make this a more realistic success, I may need to embody the flesh.
I spend time in the water. To embody research this way feels vital. This is where the work and the research begin to perform together between their separated selves. There is a usefulness in the tension here , that is, between the exterior of the story and the interior of its origin.
Something that stands out to me in the water is that sounds sound different there. Sometimes a drop of water falls in your ear. Sometimes it even falls back out again. I come across this line by Gertrude Stein, that says
Water is astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow
and a stroke.
(1914)
I start to think about the interior and exterior not just as bones and flesh or origin and conclusion , but as sound retrieved and sound re-enacted. I guess you could call this ‘prosody’.
I start using the internet to google things like
“Gertrude Stein and Fish”
