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Golden Ephemera–automatic writings and musical experiments from The Sway Machinery's laboratory
Wild week was last one. Here are some photos from our outing at the Purim Party at Sixth Street Synagogue, taken by our dear friend Christine Sullivan.
Golden Ephemera–Automatic writings and musical experiments from The Sway Machinery’s laboratory
The Sway Machinery - Sometimes Nothing Seems Good to Me
My grandfather, and then playing in the subway
It feels like a dream that I can almost remember, or like words that are on the tip of my tongue. I have the empty place in my head where an image used to be and I am trying to recreate what was there by looking at the fragments that lie around it. I am looking at a crime scene and am trying to recreate a human life by staring at the outline of a corpse left on the ground.
These are songs we used to sing. I want to hear them with the full-chested life of youth. I don’t want my memories to consist only of the ending when our songs were withered and haggard and the words slurred and half remembered at best. I want to hear you as you were, as we were, when the world was buoyant with the rapturous power of creation and of your strength. I want the song as it was sung when its words were our daily bread and there was sureness and strength in our every gesture and movement.
Switch:
In the subway my hands guided by potent, irrefutable forces towards a goal I myself do not understand. I feel the spiritual impact of the notes I play upon the handful of listeners present and I am grateful to be the conduit of this song. I feel that I am riding my instrument at times, like riding on a powerful beast.