(mantra 2: 9 variations to be repeated 108 times: making listening knowing being, making knowing listening being, making, listening knowing being, listening knowing making being, listening being making knowing, being listening making knowing, being making listening knowing)

‘Repetitions of 108’: an uninstalled, stalled installation existing in fragments. Multiples and divisions of 108 actions, erasures, marks and moments dispersed across sounds, forms, ideas and memories. Scribbled notes and sketches, that record fleeting renderings of shifting ideas are collected across note books, scraps of paper, email threads, phone notes, carved vinyl records, and calico soaked in mixtures of soya milk, earth, ash, sindoor and haldi powder. There are handmade contact mics, 3D printed prosthetics for turntables, awls, threads, styli and words. In them are stories of myth, music, mantras and math, godliness and corporeality, universalism, individualism, racism, inbetweenness and questions of identity that ‘reintroduce the resistance of materials, of experience, of work and dirt, bodies and sensibilities, of entanglement and minglednedness’ (Shulz, 2020: 92), materialising a sonic fiction, a sonic factive, mnesonic practice from resistant virtual sonic actions. All are tones, rasas, brought into differing states of materiality, words, movement, stone, colour, line.

SA – ‘The peacock’s cry’: The peacock now lives at the rubbish tip. Its call resounds into the container of broken small electrical goods as it loses its feather to the Pendle witch’s wind. The next day, in the middle of a barely heard, eye watering, buffeted, dog walking conversation, the word ‘really?’, is enunciated around the side of a soaked yet waterproof synthetic hood. The word is sounded into but above the rumbling wind, as the squelched footstep of a rubber boot simultaneously lands in the silted mud left by the Ribble’s last flood, and that same feather is pressed down into the sodden earth. Its prowess paused; it’s cry stifled.

(mantra 3: repeat x 108: factive mnesonic practice resistant sonic action)

Schulze H Sonic Fiction (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)

(Taken from https://www.urbanomic.com/chapter/sonic-faction-19-repetitions-of-108/)