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A collaboration at a distance. After a lockdown was imposed, something like a conversation emerged in a to-and-fro of writing and recordings. We were interested in the dynamics of encounter, interaction, and (dis)orientation.

The process has been marked by the stretches of time that shape this back and forth, by a certain lag, as we catch up with one another — a slowed-down, stretched-out kind of experience that is perhaps characteristic of lockdown itself.

Most of the sounds come from close to hand, everyday, tactile objects, accidents, or routines. And from the body as it rubs, carries, plays, waits, dawdles with its surroundings. The voices are chatting, syncopating, trying to change position, getting in a mess.

For Tectonics 2021, we will be channelling all of this into new work that starts by thinking about the different ways we'll find at this year’s festival of being together while apart, in versions for website and broadcast.

These tracks may be played in any order.