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performance location
Arsenal - Esplanade, Arsenal - Esplanade (Metz)
duration
07 min
date
July 15, 2009

Also you,
With the hair of rain and the eye-bowls of wind,
You returned as well.

Why do you appear to me
In the flights of limestone - butterflies?

Here, I am heartless.
Before the wall - I become a wall too.

Vasko Popa

La composition est inspirée par la poésie de Vasko Popa, qu'il a écrite comme un souvenir de son emprisonnement. Les consonnes extraites des deux premières lignes (de l'original, en serbe) sont la relation la plus évidente à la source poétique. Le reste est dans l'atmosphère, dans l'état psychologique.

Bordé … pris au piège … malheureux … seul … claustrophobique … abasourdi inquiet … désespéré …!

The composition is inspired by Vasko Popa's poem, which he wrote as a memory of his imprisonment.
The extracted consonants from the first two lines (of the original, in Serbian) are the most obvious relation to the poetic source. The rest is in the atmosphere, in the psychological state.

bordered… trapped… claustrophobic… lonesome… miserable… bewildered… desperate… anxious!

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