interleave by asher tuil
In the cold December air, all the leaves, thousands upon thousands of them, flashed against the sky, drenched in gold. Every leaf rang with its own light, and all the light poured into me without end. I inhaled and surrendered to the flow. The distance between one second and the next felt stretched out by the hands of some enormous being. I forgot to breathe, forgot to blink, and I let myself sink into the fragrant black bark of the trees. I could feel their skin against the softest parts of my body. With the tips of my fingers, I caught the drops of light falling through the gaps in the humming leaves and even entered them. It was noon, but the sun was out of sight. Everything glowed on its own. My mouth agape, I shook my head, unable to admit that this scenery was real. I bent down to pick up a leaf and examine it. It had a weight that I had never felt, a coolness that had never known, a definite shape. The tears spilled from my eyes, and the world before me, appearing through a blur of tears, continuously split apart and hatched anew.
Mieko Kawakami - Heaven
Credits
recorded june 8th-11th, 2022
in wanskuck, ri
License
All rights reserved.
asher tuil is an artist living and working in wanskuck, providence, ri. for over twenty years asher has been working with recorded sound as his primary medium. location recordings, electronic synthesis, found sounds and a variety of other sources are used in his compositions to create a rich and dynamically varied body of work which examines these materials extensively.