Dark elastic liquid

The photo: dried-up bed of the river Isère, photo from personal archive.

Dark elastic liquid

Sound performance for prepared piano, tape recorder, radio and voice

This performance is a drifting song about the vibrating air, the movement of the hair cells in your cochlea. It is a story about the fluidity of sound, known as ethereal fire. J.B. Lamarck, a French biologist from 18th century describes it as essentially a fluid, elastic and highly compressible, of extremely rare density and solidity, invisible and even imperceptible to our senses, free, calm, naturally cold, and possessing the power of penetrating with ease through the mass of all bodies.