(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFvdKk6u3Ao)
interdependencies of humans ... the organ cannot be played without another. how we rely on each other to function, exist, grow, fluctuate, create. the organ is made alive, the energy of each player a transferal of their individual chromosomal thought. a wooden structure given life and made to show how creation is a collaborative, full bodied experience. a beautiful, unaltered, humbled way to make art, to create and collapse the world as we know it.
take the tradition of the organ, something that is grand, often associated with christian tradition, the sound of marriage, orthodoxy and ritual. the binding or entwining of two souls under the eyes of the Christian God and His Son and the Holy Spirit. the perfection of two--a two that for this purpose and for all musical instruments need not be gendered nor sexed nor identified. Nor does it need to be bound to a romantic love. simply two beating hearts, some neurons, legs and hands included. the need of two. an interdependency. one’s reliance on another. you onto me, me onto you. the puzzle pieces of their shoes fitting together just so and then breaking apart ... the remnants of their connection seen in the shape of their heels, clicking away on the hardwood floor, bouncing off the white-walled gallery.
The duality in the word organ. An instrument of creation; a mass of tissue, fiber, cells, chromosomes, genes. Both require a life force to exist. here, two women join to create atmosphere, small symphonies, invisible life drifting in and out of our ears. the inflation and deflation of the organ’s fabric, the inflation and deflation of our lungs. the tree used to create this piece was once alive as well ... “the still, sad music of humanity” (Wordsworth, “Tintern Abbey”) maybe?
5:34 and on is splendid. utterly amazing piece.
