Untitled (w/Gianni Venturi)

from About Sounds About Us by Ilaria Boffa

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lyrics

'This is a story, the story of silence, of pauses and absence; the story of us. We have no outline nor layout. We are a series of chemical, non–algorithmic processes. Unframed. He unfolded me, I rooted him in us. We stratified a new landform. At first, language was a code, binary. Interpretation and notation as though we had our backs turned. We stayed put, in long grass, grappling with want. In depths and heights, movement and stillness, the otherness of separation. Our discourse, our propositions, existing per se, in the making. The very nature of a duality anchored in time. And then the in- between-ness of all things, the non-yet, the modality of our together-ness. As trailing off to the edges, we defeated the onlywhere. In gestures, in postures, the void of distance. It exuded grief.
He owned his own cattle, he learnt to be good to the livestock. What was my role? My impertinent presence. I was into narrative and its logic of details, progression and subtraction. I was discursive. We both added imagery. You’re not at fault by pondering this story as a continuum through silence. Its porousness legitimated the passage of syllables, semibreves and crotchet.
We rested by an illegible idiom. We went past it.'

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from About Sounds About Us, released April 22, 2021

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Ilaria Boffa Padua, Italy

Born 6 January 1972, Ilaria Boffa is an Italian poet and sound recordist. She has published four poetry collections and she is one of the eight authors included in the North East American Association publication ‘Writing in a Different Language’ Vol XL 2018.
Over the last years, she has been experimenting with field recording. ... more