Collaborations

[Nicholas]

On Friday 16th September, Gus Simonovic (of Printable Reality) was invited to perform for the New Zealand studies department at Birkbeck Univeristy London.  Nicholas Alexander and Rosanna Raymond were guests also invited to read.

 

Here is the first video of this collaboration : One Thing by Gus Simonovic

 

And another Fisherman

 

 

[Heather Royle]

One thing is the 'real thing'! I love "words, words are like dice, they change their value depending on how you play them" - so true! I would like to read this work sometime, as one or two words were not clear in the recording.

[Gus Simonovic]

thanks Heather ... here is the text for you :)

 

 

One-Thing

The sound was drumming raindrops on the thin roof of my consciousness.
Someone or something wrote notes on my whiteboard with a permanent marker.
And that same voice kept leaving messages on my phone that I couldn’t delete.
The distant whisper became so loud that I stopped hearing
my own thoughts .
Mute, I felt I was talking to that someone or something
talking to me, deaf.

I saw that someone
or something
becoming
One-thing
in front of my feelings.
I looked at the voice
taking the shape
of the light
and silently invading.
I stared at letters
lining up
in a new alphabet and words  …. words ….
taking the place
of their real meanings.

I was ready to talk, to sing, to
to dance… 
I was ready for One-Thing.
For quite some time I was wanting this One-Thing,
… welcome and goodbye.

Words … words are like dice,
they change their value depending
on how you play them – the voice said.
Yes!    Yes let’s play, I relished.
No, … no let’s just dance instead,
was the last I heard from the voice.

One-thing took me by the hand
took me to God’s house
not to confess … to dance.
Home found us, wherever
we went but we didn’t say welcome,
we just danced.
Than went to the train station,
not to say goodbye, but to dance
a parting dance.
 
Welcome and goodbye,
the voice taught me
One-Thing of many words, without one.