Mythical Time
Before clocks carved out time into measured abstract units of linear, scientific time we lived in mythical time. We experienced time subjectively and walked within the cycles of nature while being deeper in touch with our own human cycles. Where life was not constructed by beginning and end but by destruction and renewal; death and rebirth. In these cycles we are able to experience the present moment while relating it to a mythical archetype which allows an experience of mythical present; a timeless now. This is how we construct our lives and indeed our relationship to past and future generations.
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This piece aims to offer the listener an escape from linear, abstract time through evoking imaginal listening. Spacial images and source bonded objects are moved through in a narrative evoking a plasticity of place. The listener is invited to reach back in mythical time to reflect on cycles of life and death, joy and sadness, dry and rainy seasons, tidal cycles, and other universal truths; perhaps even a mythical present.