transmigration

room 7 ECHOES

Location: Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States

You are hearing a soundwalk for those who are asked to stay. For those held in place by circumstance, by paper, by policy. For those who know that longing often begins with a sound. Audio travels freely— Crossing borders, time zones, continents With no luggage, no checkpoint, no translation.

You are entering distant places mapped onto familiar grounds. A call to prayer in Usak echoes in a parking garage. Youthful laughter in Yakutsk lingers between gravestones. The pulse of a taxi radio in Tuti island resounds through a theater’s bones. You pause, listen, and resume your walk In between the quiet collisions of here and elsewhere. You’ve always been here: a campus that breathes with many lives, A landscape re-tuned by distance.

May you wander even while standing still. May you be borderless—


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Prayer and Garage

The air shifts before the voice arrives. A tremble, then clarity. Low, resonant. Carved from breath …

Tune and Cemetery

They’re sitting on benches by the Taloye Lake— Guitar slung loose, half a cigarette burning, Laughte…

Meadow and Treetop

It takes a long time to notice the tallest things. Their movement is too slow, Too certain, Too far …

Cemetery and South Shore

The insects start first. Not loud—just insistent. A net of sound pulling itself across the trees. So…

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