Leona Jones | manifesto

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... on a quest(i/on/in)going on ...

composing = shapesounds indefinites shadows in minds previously unknown

searchingsearching until rise free a shapeshift restless continues flexing fluxing

settles shakes moves on flows on spoken voice digital recordings spatiality

movement energy pulses in>through>round>from shapes swimshoaling

any thing could happen

it does

it will

We’re living in exciting/fearful times. Times to question ways of doing and being.

Times to find different possibilities, to try things out. Discover What Happens If. But

explore at random without bothering too much about order. Do it through Rhizomes

– find a NEW form… a differently…

▶ Borders On

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TIsi(sound)lencestill(motion)nessME

Language/music/sound/noise overlap definitions support and counteract each other, all changing depending on context and physical space. Play with ideas of location of meaning. Should meaning even be expected or found? Rather what does music DO? What does music allow people to do? How to Listen in ways that make us receptive to one another? Ensure a plurality of voices can be heard? What are the settings in which speech and sound can be heard and have a meaningful effect?

Recording is set and fixed but its situation isn’t

Language – intertwined with my double helix

slippery something continually out of grasp

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Sound too. Performative. Bodiless. Elusive. Can’t be grasped. Brings back memories. Provokes effects on bodies. Raises emotions. And can completely alter how we perceive spaces. The theatrical quality of sound.

LISTENING –

it’s influenced by cultural training, a political act. John Cage understands Listening
as autonomous. To Pauline Oliveros Listening Deep is activism, counteracting Distracted Viewing, relational and always collective. When Listening is vertical
spatial considerations come to the fore, attention is paid from development into sounds themselves. Sounds interreact with surroundings.

choose your listening point/s

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▶ Fragmanin

Break/The/Gaze

Do you read this out loud?

twis-ting-eve-ry-syll-a-ble-like-butt-er-weft-through-tongue

loud forcing of air to vibrate feeling bzz tckl text breath through throatsinusmouthtonguepalateteethspringLIPS

Probably not

Why not

try

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COLLABORATION -

Nothing exists in isolation

Devising/collaborating – how to invite others in..?

How to hold tight to conversations..?

UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights – another piece of collaboration

Article 22

Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

Article 27

Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.

▶ in audible

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NOW: crouch crawl small crawl blindfolded crawl along a crawl beckoning crawl tunnel crawl narrowingcrawl easing crawl squeeeezing crawl to emerge

where???

stumble tumble make off take off into the realms of

ZZZZZaummmMMmmS-ow-nnn-d-SSS

swarmings and scamperings (just out of mindshot)

journey ON

▶ babblesnatch

…escape/explore seek out excitements, not solutions, not situations, not answers it’s hear now think later on into deep, hidden recesses way past the reach of daylight sometimes only a flickering light held in a particular position can start to reveal what lies within…

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▶ in(ex)teriors

my Written your Read bornofgossamerlookingsandreadingsandsearchingsandturningsanddoings

your Read will be different as are your reasons for reading this my Written

by this(ticktock)now this my Written has served a purpose of i

by this(ticktock)now the time of your Read this my Written has left i behind

i am somewhere else

and that’s a purpose too

probably the only one

worth the risk ...

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▶ Composer of the Month: Leona Jones