Today I went to London to see Alanna and Fran at Fran's place in Peckham. Fran is an architect and interested in how spaces are occupied by the invisible or how you can investigate spaces through non-material processes (I think!).
We talked about time and what it means to us. Fran grew up in Greenwich and so time was prevalent in their lives. Time is a colonial concept from the mid 18th century. Ships used to set their time keeping watches to the chronometer [A marine chronometer is a precision timepiece that is carried on a ship and employed in the determination of the ship's position by celestial navigation. It is used to determine longitude by comparing Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), or in the modern world its successor Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and the time at the current location found from observations of celestial bodies.
We started by doing some stretches and meditations, starting inside with our core, connecting outwards towards our skins. Then we did some writing about this experience and I noted the accumulation of gravity points within me, at my knees and feet. I noted the absence of my bladder and chest. Fran said a taxi driver once told them about the body being like the earth, with a thin crust but so much unknown going on within and without.
We had some Hawthorn tincture which was strong and tasty.
Pauline Oliveros Sonic Meditations - https://blogthehum.com/2016/09/13/pauline-oliveros-sonic-meditations-1974-the-complete-text-and-scores/
Walk so silently that your feet become ears
you are moved by the wind
We created our own scores and went to Peckham Rye to play them out. It was so windy which made for an interesting movement!!
One of Alanna's inside ones: make the sound of echos of surfaces in the room [hollow spaces / dead spaces]
Ritual listening in Islam - Listening in thee Sufi Islamic tradition
Listening with the ear of the heart [https://www.overgrownpath.com/2014/10/listening-with-ear-of-heart.html]
Sufi whirling [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufi_whirling]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtD5l_AcaWk&ab_channel=UFCR