Paarl Sketches
Dessiclip rust-dustScratching fronds a-jambed ascentTo geo-flat stepp Aguiginate cutVeined florid droogness descentIncising said-meant Groon-boon petalled slinkDarting pit-a-pat on solTo secret shaden
Red more…Kirstenbosch Sketches
Floraginal inMatter of vertacularSwish-swash footedness Flankèd muchly ofSongtress aviformulousNatters in arbor Lain-laid-love-lie onDownward montane patch-in-grownWith wide-eye far-view Plume hapt-scraping barkPigmented wit adam eauSubtending blank blat Floss gris drown atopClip-cloppy berg cascaderTo rock-a-boom roots
Red more…Cat Lullaby
shock white shadow, rests his paws on purest snow, splayed across the eggshell floor, with two blue daggers sheathed by lids, closed by half to keep his gaze, and i reach out behind his ears, across his back down to his plume, gently curled around his feet. i feel the hum contentest creature, now the…
Red more…The Hunt
pad left right (krck) swipe (mrrrp?) paw left right dip … touch … brush … left right stare (sniff) wait to see hear touch tilt head (lean in) lunge feint pad swipe (spit) round and round (dart) up down (meep?) claw gnash back (brrr) tilt to back at back round (swish tail) and round left…
Red more…Devotion in the absence of Stars
i crave the Stars mimicking the tears i cannot see i left Her not by choice though i have forgotten many of Her subtleties which are in the waning Moon which silently shouts yet refuses to answer except as i phase as She feasts on my own carrion and asks me to lose in affirmation…
Red more…Threnody for Web 1.0
“And where does the newborn go from here?” what are the possibilities for Pregnancy “And” Birth if the newborn can depart and deconstruct if the Coitus against the meeting of two {three, four, five, n, n+1} rather “And” a third body {1 + 1 = 3i} the third “And” body which sends the newborn on…
Red more…Methadology contra methodology
This paper considers the possibilities of what might be expressed in the relationship between practice and research. In particular, that if we are to situate ourselves as practitioners in historical relationship to the styles of other practitioners, or ourselves as researchers in historical relationship to our own practice, then we must contend with the differential…
Red more…an email connecting two fellow musical Autists
Let this email be a refutation of the normative psychology of Autism. Let the etymology of Autism — to be within one’s self — be sundered where this email touches our fleshes across space-time-matterings. Our solipsisms touch through our heterogeneous experiences; we recognize a need for a language which opens out our interior, yet stops…
Red more…The Many Voices of “System Shock 2”
System Shock 2 remains one of the most lauded and influential video games of all time. While its genre is generally characterised as horror and action role-play, I suggest that this is an insufficient description. Rather the game is a tension between horror and ecstacy, agency and helplessness; these paradoxes are exemplified by the audio…
Red more…PhD Thesis: Alors On Danse!
Think-Do-Living the Embodied Musicking Subject This portfolio of compositions and commentary takes as its subject the musicking body and the entanglement of embodiment and composition. The five practical projects are all centred on a constellation of concerns about the musicking body which the thesis develops. The first chapter is a phenomenology of my creative practice,…
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Morgaine Rire // Luna F. Redelinghuys 