Henri Bergson described the attempt to repeat an action as ‘already its virtual decomposition; (which) bears within itself… its own analysis’ (Bergson, Matter and Memory). A musician, then, attempting to play and replay, indefinitely, the same short moment of music, would be subject to the decomposition of that action already contained in that attempt; would be venturing to separate his own ‘general stream' of the experience of playing from the analysis of having played it before and before and before. ‘Does the same sentence repeated very loudly and very softly form one or more statements? (Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge). A narrator, attempting to describe and redescribe, indefinitely, the same repeated section of moving image, would be attempting to repeat ‘an unrepeatable event’ and finding the manifestations divergent. ‘The sudden dissolution of historical continuity charges postmodern material with an intense sense of a presence without historical meaning… exposing the empty loop’ (Verwoert, Living with Ghosts).
Devised in collaboration with writer and musician Luke Richards, Tin Reflection is performed for the first time at the 9th SAR - International Conference on Artistic Research, University of Plymouth, on April 13th 2018
Devised in collaboration with writer and musician Luke Richards, Tin Reflection is performed for the first time at the 9th SAR - International Conference on Artistic Research, University of Plymouth, on April 13th 2018