Pyramid Club Broadcasting

[0’00’’] French Ouverture (Jude) [3’34’’] Allemande: Books as Time Capsules [9’06’’] Courante: Listen to the Water [11’04’’] Pavane: Dead Alien Baby (Thomas) [17’35’’] Bourrée: in transit [28’24’’] Air: The Breath of Birds [33’21’’] Passepied: Walking Up the Mountain (Vanessa) [34’44’’] Tombeau [39’35’’] Fantasia Contrappuntistica Please use headphones to optimise your listening experience. ----------------- I trawl through disordered voice memo archives and set sticky traps through time and space with the help of a few friends. I catch an Easter choir in Athens, chickens in rural upstate New York, sad birds in New Zealand, touches of Ravel and Debussy, a friend’s child, an urban owl in Wales, some cats, one howling midnight dog, several underground trains... Underneath it all, I smear a thick, odorous layer of the hum of pissy Paris streets, recorded in horrible phone audio. I put the sounds into a jar and close the lid tightly so that they don’t escape. They are tangled up all over each other and inside of me. My own voice also sits in there, trapped in amber sap. Now I can drag them around with me forever, or for as long as I last. ----------- For a full essay that completes the work, and for credits and links, please visit https://www.pyramidclub.org.nz/french-suite-theatre-ear-nine-audio-snapshots-xenia-pestova-bennet