Ryan Ormonde is a poet from London and a founding member of press free press, a group dedicated to inhabiting spaces with text objects in performance. In 2019 Ryan participated in an embodied poetry residency on the Isle of Lismore in Scotland with eight other poets, led by Em Strang. Details of past and forthcoming work on Ryan's website .
In 'Delicate Chaos' Ryan responds to soundscapes included in Unbound Atlas, a booklet and CD that formed the first in a series of works by Ramona Stout and Alyssa Moxley of Mazi Collective, organisers of the 2016 Kinisi festival in Santorini.Â
Delicate Chaos
‘In Albania the music came thick and fast and the sounds were a peculiarly delicate chaos of teeming nature, Ramadan and man-made machine noise’
- Ramona Stout, Unbound Atlas
There is a point of reception
A listening post
In this letter
A point of translation
Perhaps several points
Related in an editing instinct
But heard as a point
That seems unnoticed
So life is disinterested
And you can listen
I am not clothed in this hubbub
And I do not disrobe
Spread cheeks to this
Public if ignoring bustle
The two notes of one bird
See saw to say
This is true, this is true
Things will clink
This much we know
We have not yet stopped
This clinking, it is the work of
Hands surviving
The circle of chaos
Every lap a new unfolding
Where do you place yourself,
Listener?
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