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read the cart captioning transcript for dreaming our futures + embodying our dreams 11.1.25
dream reading by alexa dexa.
okay. so the dreaming our futures + embodying our dreams oracle//composition card that i’ve pulled for us is called nourish. it’s a little sort of like a tulip shape with a green almost leaf-like glitch around it. it’s a crayon drawing and it only covers half the card and the other half is open space.
and i have to say i really love that nourish is what is coming up at this time. i think especially with all of the dreams that everyone has been sharing, it does sort of sound to me like a sort of central space for us to move from and start off from in our collective and personal dreaming is an idea about nourishment, how we are nourished, how we’re nourishing, what we are taking care of, what kind of care we’re receiving, what kind of care we are allowing to be welcomed into our spaces. what kind of care we want to be asking for and who we can ask to receive it. and how we want to offer our care. and so this is just sort of like a little anchoring point, something to think on if it resonates with you for our dreaming together today and into the future. i am going to also get, there’s a little spell, a little spell poem that goes along with this card, so i will read it. and it says nourish the parts that go unnoticed.
libretto co-crafted by all.
nourish the parts that go unnoticed
breath and the parts of our bodies
that work without conscious control
giving them credit and caring for them
connection between
nourishing physical needs
of our communities on the margins
may community care help us nourish each other
even in the face of repression
i nourish impatience
this omnipresent yet often invisible companion
and witness its transformation
trust of self, of others, and of hope
nourish boundaries
may they one day be acknowledged
let us nourish our sacred rage
it is not too late to learn how to feed
the parts you closed your eyes to
may we figure out nourishment,
both our collective and individual bodies’ need
a steaming bowl of low histamine noodle soup
with a pair of chopsticks on top
interdependent nourishing
nourish our planet, all beings seen and unseen
may we grow the skills to hold the depth
of hurt and hope together
nourish the parts that bring up shame
or embarrassment
nourishing love i feel for myself
and my communities
at times when it is hard to express it
in words or others
nourish communication with those
who left before us
nourish our souls with small joys
nourish each other with whatever we can spare
even if we worry it is not enough
nourish our inner child and all our inner parts
nourish the part of us that is scared
so it feels not isolated
nourish, flourish
foraged found
may we notice all the paths
and acknowledge with sound
nourish mystery
and illegibility
and the gift of things
we will never know
sound description by danilo machado.
[alexa slowly hums, starts playing chimes and xylokeyboard]
[echoing scratchy among bell tones]
[ceramic spoon drags gently on ceramic bowl]
[alexa hums, echoes deeper, under]
[alexa sings “nourish the parts that go unnoticed”]
[spoon sounds among plucks among alexa’s easy singing]
[big open mouth sounds like yawn or relief, followed by higher pitched noise]
[alexa continues to sing sweetly, keyboard, spoon, chimes keep imperfect time atop the wavy sound haze like ocean]
[exhales return, as do the rest of the elements, stepping back and forth like a dance]
[alexa continues our spell, resonances start to build atop of each other, plinking and plonking]
[alexa’s elongated singing sits atop a breezy collective interspaced with clonks and clicks]
[some of the plucking is sharp, others feel softer]
[a voice warms up with notes in quick succession]
[alexa refrains: let us nourish ourselves]
[alexa conjures the space soft and assured]
[the sound space refuses normative resolution]
[words return]
[the word “breathe” echoes among breaths]
[strings of before are still being plucked]
[the offerings flow in the wind as alexa continues the spell]
[metal strings ping through the words are varying rhythms]
[humming and long exclamation, whispers]
[lower tone reading the spell, processed with the patch among the other tapestry of sounds]
[nourish the unintelligible, and the maxmsp patch is doing just that as our spell is read
backwards for good measure]
[accumulation, overlap, weave]
[the words pluck like the instruments do]
[sounds of optimism overlap with sounds of determination]
[notes stretch like muscles]
[nourish the parts that go unnoticed, alexa sings]
[our song is sweet but also glitch]
[can you hear me, a voice asks]
[hello, a voice responds]
[i see you, it affirms]
[i hear you, another affirms]
[we are all listening to you, one chimes]
[the patch reverses and repeats, which is to say insists and reminds]
[some of us sound submerged, perhaps under liquid]
[some of the sounds emerge, like dolphins do]
[sound fades to almost silence]
