Sleep Dose #159

Mercoledì 4 marzo Sleep Dose #159 (Quiescenza).

A qualcuno tra noi sarà capitato di trovarsi in un reparto ospedaliero e sentirsi come appeso ad un filo, sull’orlo del collasso fisico e mentale; e, se non direttamente, anche solo per interposta persona. È come se due sfere collassassero l’una nell’altra: questa e l’altra parte. I sogni non si distinguono più dai pensieri. Fantasmagorie indotte da farmaci super potenti, droghe sedanti, e tutto sembra fluire come nelle mani di solerti ed indaffarati meccanici, che minuziosamente regolano valvole e controllano parametri, come in un sofisticato garage. In sottofondo il suono delle macchine tiepide e ronzanti, della scienza medica incarnata nell’artificiale, che tenta di tenere quel filo sottile saldo. Corpi in difficoltà. In totale quiescenza.
E poi, agli antipodi, sono a muoversi forze telluriche.

Wednesday, 4 March, Sleep Dose #159 (Quiescence).

Some of us may have found ourselves in a hospital ward feeling as if we were hanging by a thread, very near of physical and mental collapse; and, if not directly, then at least through someone else. It is as if two spheres were collapsing into each other: this one and the other. Dreams can no longer be distinguished from thoughts. Phantasmagoria induced by super-powerful drugs, sedatives, and everything seems to flow as if in the hands of diligent and busy mechanics, who meticulously adjust valves and control parameters, as in a sophisticated garage. In the background, the sound of warm, humming machines, of medical science embodied in the artificial, trying to keep that thin thread steady. Bodies in distress. In total quiescence.
And then, at the antipodes, telluric forces are moving.

Con/Featuring:
Mark Vernon (Full Blood Count Analyzer Processing Samples)
Bono / Burattini (Lonely Blue Star + Oltre Le Palpebre)
Mark Vernon (METI Human Patient Simulator – Mannequin Breathing, Used In Exercises By Trainee Medical Staff)
Timo Kaukolampi (Ghost-Riding)
Austin Williamson and Blanket Swimming (Viewing Ourselves As Strangers)
Cleared (Lustres)
Mark Vernon (Anaesthetic Machine – Two One-Way Valves Rattle In Tandem As Patient Inhales And Exhales)
NigNigNig (Esserini)
Stine Janvin / Morten Joh (Leaving Home-O Verden, Hav Da Gode Nat!-Feat. Lucy Railton)
Stine Janvin / Morten Joh (Acceptance – Kom, Menneske, At Skue Mig!)
Mark Vernon (Heater Fan (Used To Keep Patients Warm During Anaesthetic Procedures) – Air From Fan Blowing Across Microphone)
Delphine Dora (A Travers Mer Infinie, À L’Intime De Moi-Même)
Andreas Voelk & Scott Monteith (And All The Clocks Ran Dry Part I)
Elizabeth Davis (All In Uniform)
Mark Vernon (Ultrasound Doppler Waves – Carotid Artery Pulse)
Mark Vernon (Phacoemulsifier – Suction And Ultrasound During Cataract Surgery – Two Perspectives)
Hiroshi Ebina (Quiescence + Isolation Portrait)
Mark Vernon (CT Scan, Condensed Time-Span)
Lottie Sebes (Mouthpiece)
Nikolaienko (Mirrorage + Ambianta IV)
Mark Vernon (Dialysis Machine In Operation)
Western Grey (After Hours I.III)
Stephen O’Malley (Phase I Organ)
Timo Kaukolampi (Way Home)
France De Griessen (Where Have You Been, My Friend?)
Night Palace (Fig Dream)

Con una poesia tratta da QUIESCENZA di Valeria Francese (Edizioni La Gru, 2022)
Ed estratti dal testo di Niccolò Caramel “BREVE STORIA DELLE TEORIE OCCIDENTALI SULLE CAUSE DEI TERREMOTI (ParteII)

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