how to measure absence, by daily rituals

how to measure absence

by daily rituals

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Ruben van den Belt Big skies in small daily life moments. Touching. Thanks Favorite track: calexico bound, hwy 94, early december.

ioflow gentle, pastoral.
a moment and a place;
a meditative space.
a breath, a suspension;
a bird, a reflection. Favorite track: western sycamore / unpaid debt.

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1.	points of inflection / sunburnt eyes 03:56	buy track
2.	you will know me by my innumerable parts 04:14	buy track
3.	short rest back soon 05:32	buy track
4.	lucky spirits find purpose 04:26	buy track
5.	calexico bound, hwy 94, early december 07:13	buy track
6.	missed calls / dark again 02:09	buy track
7.	western sycamore / unpaid debt 04:06	buy track
8.	the leaving way 05:58	buy track
9.	gnaw deep; ring the hollow song 03:48	buy track
10.	this will find you, wild lark 03:32	buy track

about

'how to measure absence' is about overlapping experiences/moments. a sort of collage and assembly of intervals. it's a record about reference - exploring how the internal and external become hazy with enough perspective and time.

within all that it's also about how those layered ways of existence reframe things like loss and absence and silence.

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i have inherited
two pasts

& experience them
imbricated -

as figures on
distant cliffs. small &
playing stories.

naming the sand crabs
all the names they have
since collected.

unacquainted
with existence.

that is to say,
they have not yet searched
for an empty room to fill
with an image of themselves.

to hold these cycles closely.
with sequence
& with unison.

feel them open inward
in times of labyrinth.
when the sky turns
the timbre of glass.

a pale neckline.
ozone sweat &
red earth humming.
a tongued birdcall -
held still in air.