L04

L04

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you are at the end of the 4.5 layers. have a seat, maybe by the feet of the statue overlooking the canal. this quasi silence can give a space for reflection. what did you experience? i lead you down a short, simple but busy route hoping that you have experienced more then just the traffic and the chattering of people. hoping that you have experienced the diversity of this corner and the city, its people but also it's other then human citizens and materials. its layers a plentiful and one side is not like the other. thank you for joining me on this first walk of which i also hope will follow more. the recordings were all conducted in the summer of 2021 and today the quarter is already sounding slightly different. i am curious to see how this discrepancy will keep re-composing the walk and hope to cross you on another gander through the layers. keep peeling

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Molenbeek-Saint-Jean

In front of a door, onto the street, under the ground and back up again. The space between becomes a substance we only try to press through to get to the next layer. The rumble of the traffic carving their tracks through the city; the crunchy cracks in the pavement broken from pressure and old; the fletching sparkes and howling mass of noise that outruns its source and loops back when Simonis meets Elisabeth. This walk starts close to your body, when you are not even yet on your feet. It throws you in front of a noisy street with a festive name. You can walk now; a pair of steel sucks you between its groove and takes you under the surface of a big avenue with a royal name. You can still move and there is your chance to become a piece of bronze that sucks up the sounds like a dry sponge. When you hang from the edge of a bridge that is barely floating you can still jump or cling either way this walk will throw you into the between. You will balance your steps carefully on this crease of a city elongating and forming a border with a name used in many places. You will walk through the future into the past between the layers: here & present.

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