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everyday is fiction

from Ongoing Collected Works by Ben Zucker

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for small percussion and live electronics
for and commissioned by Ben Damann (2020)

“...we will simply skim its borders, what is given as the frame and the system of edges, margins, limits...Among all these framing features there is, before the first [note], the title....Here it is understood conventionally that the title does not belong to the narrative, it does not constitute an element of the narration that will follow. It is not one of the sentences the narrator will utter.” (Jacques Derrida, Given Time)

The disruption of narratives of ‘normal’ life by ongoing events might lead us to consider what the borders of our life and art ever were in the first place. It brings a renewed attention to the details of our actions at home, not only for their utility, but for their sounds. There is a narrative of mundane sounds at play in how we order our time, and a narrative of how we order the unusual ones in music. Both are coming apart.

If we aren’t the narrators of our own lives, what are we? If we don’t break down borders, cross where we want to, stretch sounds and objects and time where we want to, past the point at which reality might have otherwise configured them, what are we? As the narrator of this piece performs it, while not uttering a sentence, they retitle the days. A fictional week made of material of the old fiction hesitantly sets up pliable borders. (Once)-sound thresholds push back on each other and reset the borders. From a few elements that we might still claim as commonplace, the narrator of this sonic fiction rebuilds their time, and gives it to you. The fiction of everyday is fiction keeps it pliable across performances, across narrators, across material circumstances. None can be taken for granted.

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from Ongoing Collected Works, released August 23, 2017

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