9. Imp on my mind

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Speech transcription: It can be easy Sometimes To feel too heavy For this earth I could fall I thought I entertained the sensation An imp on my mind I didn’t want to Control No control My heart fluttered I toyed With those thoughts Push Pull Push? I played with it For a second I wouldn’t have Of course not An imp on my mind The more you try To control it The quicker It jumps around It dances On the edge of Your thoughts And briefly gets entwined I relaxed To let the imp Untangle It fell I didn’t push It didn’t pull It just fell Our distance Grew in latitude I ascended Or It descended In a line The line descended quickly.

Audio description: The clip begins with a soft, ambient synth playing a simple, melancholy sequence. A gentle breeze sound fades in, with the feeling of speed picking up and falling here and there. Above these gentle sounds, the voice begins to speak. The sound of small waves lapping merges in along with the atmospheric sounds of birds. The ambient synth sequence gradually fades out, eventually sitting in the background of the mix. The speed of the wind seems to get stronger. The clip finishes with the sound of small rocks or stones tumbling downwards, following the narrator’s final sentence, “the line descended quickly”.

Down Through the Clouds and Back Through Time Again

Liverpool

This sound walk is a collection of fragments from artists Dan Waine and Mali Draper’s collaborative practice, combining immersive sound design and storytelling. “The moments from the night on the island are disjunct in the way that they sit in my head. Actually, on second thought they don’t sit, they bounce. I sat on the edge of a wall that surrounded a car park. The sky was much darker by this point, even the clouds were indistinct. They had dissolved into the indigo inkiness that hung above me. The red lights revealed themselves once again. On, two, three, four, five, six, seven, off…” The story centres around a character who accidentally gets trapped on an uninhabited island for an evening. The narrator finds themselves isolated without contact to the rest of the world, though still in view of the mainland over the body of water that separates them. A recurring focal point of the narrative is a mysterious red light that comes and goes, which ignites curiosity in the narrator, pulling them in and out of a dream-like progression throughout. The thoughts of the narrator may be shared with the audience, their fragmented and buffering nature feel very much like being put on pause; the lingering between one moment and another. Due to COVID-19 this work has been adapted from what was originally planned to be an indoor, interactive installation at OUTPUT gallery. Dan and Mali have dissected their work into 18 soundscapes, forming a sound walk located in Princes Park, Liverpool so that the work can be accessed by the public in a safe way.

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9. Imp on my mind

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