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From the Light that is Us

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This is the re-created sound from an initiation ritual within a performative biofeedback installation.
A symbolic rebirth through a cathartic bloodletting.

First collaborative performance project with Listening Circuits (then Pinealis Glandula). Black Arrows holds the space, singing a poem about the dark night of the soul; the journey through it, towards an ultimate communion/union, as she pierces Pinealis’s chest and arms with 8 needles attached to strings which she gives to the audience.

Each needle comes out with a cut; a bloodletting releasing the old, inviting in the new.
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Performed live at Dream States, curated by Non Dual Collective, March 2019.
Find the full film made from the documentation footage here: vimeo.com/347863501

Check out Listening Circuits here: listeningcircuits.bandcamp.com?from=search&search_item_id=1159047995&search_item_type=b&search_match_part=%253F&search_page_id=2007073845&search_page_no=0&search_rank=1&search_sig=2cf4088aa75db89aaccb868d043a8f7c&logged_in_menubar=true

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Something has to give you

back to yourself, Alone

and only

Alone and lonely here, Remotely

clear you hear the call of tongues

the fall of songs eerie

and familiar



But when down shore they

worship the profane, how

can you find the way back

Upstream with no luck

no row no boat you float

adrift beyond the shores that bore you,

that still adore you



You wouldn’t know

the call beyond this wall

of beating crashing waves upon

your memory, your fires now quenched

Abandoned sails

with wails of anguished hope you roll

Down with the currents and out beyond

all you once thought known



to bury yourself in horizon

to find out what’s true

to discover what the deepest part of you

knew

all along



but couldn’t hear it bubble up from Within

while all those voices Without

drowned it out in your mouth

and out of your eyes, back, into your throat back

into your imagined skies at night.



And you’ll grow old and then you’ll find

In the dark night of your Soul, when

you were drifting far and blind

exploding stars danced brighter above than any Sun of Morning.



Until the moment comes

when yearning lands upon the one

who burns in your eyes brighter…

And right before the coming dawn

You are found:



Immersed in Sound

Ablaze and released

into Bliss



Suspended on the Borderline

where union is ultimate Truth.

credits

released January 20, 2022
Biofeedback installation used and most of the sound design and mastering by Listening Circuits / Pinealis Glandula (Tarik Haskić).
Song and spoken word composition by Black Arrows (Alice Karveli).

Film documentation Li Yilei.

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Black Arrows is multidisciplinary artist Alice Karveli, tearing rips through the fabric of Spacetime with sonic implements, sometimes gently, sometimes harshly, at times solo and others collaboratively.

London based from Athens Greece. ... more

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