Live performance is writing in pencil on a small postcard. It’s transient and something that the audience may not remember exactly but may talk about, years later. It comes with surprises and no guarantees. It’s an entirely different way of being in the world. The worst seat in the house belongs to the singer: on stage, I am as a mockingbird alone upon the …
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opening sounds
What something sounds like can’t change what it is: The sound of a drawer opening … The north wind on the telephone lines … A motorbike along the lane … Lilacs crashing through old barn walls … The key turning in the door to an empty house … Footsteps retreating. Yet sound opens sound. It …