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what lives on in my sonic landscape? the song a new friend sung me before burning man when i said i felt lonely (https://t.co/5E2KFIeKkA 🎵). the song i learned yesterday at the grief ritual (no recording). silence. the way a forest sounds when it's quiet. the rustle of a home
oh, i found a recording. the person who created it uploaded it to soundcloud. crazy im going to meet her, or people who met her, at the gathering in going to next week https://t.co/b8aKNUkFph
it feels so different to interact with music this way than my previous way: selecting tracks in the dark-green ux of spotify each of these songs came from someone i loved, or a place i was. each of these songs was sung, and i can sing. they lived on in a voice, passed around
music as a participation in a social body cultural and historical relationships embedded in a real social and energetic body https://t.co/Ah5ZLXP6m1
i wouldn’t have known what to make of these words a few years ago, but this experience, of having experienced what it’s like for a few different groups to have sung this song makes the energetic body real the experience of "the song i heard yesterday came from someone who’s im going to meet in a few days" and it passed around this asheville community makes the social body real
@relic_radiation is telling me about how many of the songs she’s showed me have a role: the song about fire was sung when they were lighting the fire the songs are participating in an even greater body: of life and doing things themselves
@relic_radiation more on remembering and knowing songs https://t.co/rCDYbkrPnn
@AskYatharth @jocelynames_ From this summer! She usually plays it on the guitar https://t.co/L6oJ0i8dA2
@AskYatharth @relic_radiation yeah! I was surprised to learn how much... more special?... these songs are And then I couldn't find them on the internet which, 1. Bummer, I want to play them on guitar, but 2. Makes them more special even
@sedatesnail @relic_radiation yeah, the songs only stay with me through recordings. each recording is linked to an actual moment i was there it's like my digital experiences closely correspond and track my physical ones, they weave in together closely https://t.co/aRyndFNVvK