Workshop Poem

This friday I hosted Simon and Maddie in a collaborative session. I led them through rituals that created a mutual intimacy that wasn't based on our relationships or who we are. First I directed their attention to their breath, with visualisations and body scans. Then we did "Corpse aerobics"- moving the body of one of the participants who was dead weight on the floor, loosening them, giving them a minimal contact massage. Then we lay on the floor, our three heads touching in a triangle, and hummed, finding harmonies together, beginning and ending intuitively. Then we keened, and finally, having reached a new level of intuitive connection, we foraged in the space between our three minds for words, and wrote a poem in the air with our voices. It felt very hypnotic and meditative and put us in a strange state. There was more that I wanted to do in the workshop but we ran out of time, but it was a good starting point for me and got me thinking about the possibility of building a collection of songs which has no clear writer, from music with no clear agent. I like the idea of an unknown human origin.

 Here is the poem we found together-

Together we will shout

Shalt out sing signs symbols shrouds onto these lines count

children know this intuitively 

thou shall not know make entry blouse forms 

I've maybe ok 

will play the game with islands far from here

chairs people proffer size how to rise over parasites

spit spirit sprickt 

terrifying beautiful but terrifying

so so long sucker 

feel my gentle skint 

I wonder where it's gone to or even if it was here

alone

like Suzanne Suzanne Suzanne Boyle 

once said

cry me a river

I've also included an early video of keening experimentation.