Sten Sandell reads and sings texts by Bengt Emil Johnson, Åke Hodell and Inger Christensen

Music/Text/Image for voice/piano/organ

It. So begins the suite of poems of the same name by the poet Inger Christensen, which she published in Danish in 1969. Long before we had begun to get entangled in postmodern reasoning about what might be relative truths in our lives and the language we use, this ground-breaking suite of poems came about our time and what it means to be human.

That was it. So the story of evolution continues, where each word becomes a fundamental building block in a larger process. The inherent power of each word, the word itself, takes on a completely different weight. That's it and nothing else. So it has begun. Word after word, building block after building block, speech series that propel us forward and add new events and rhythmic events. It is. Even now I understand that I am stuck in this inexorable stream of text in the d...

Sten Sandell reads and sings texts by Bengt Emil Johnson, Åke Hodell and Inger Christensen

Music/Text/Image for voice/piano/organ

It. So begins the suite of poems of the same name by the poet Inger Christensen, which she published in Danish in 1969. Long before we had begun to get entangled in postmodern reasoning about what might be relative truths in our lives and the language we use, this ground-breaking suite of poems came about our time and what it means to be human.

That was it. So the story of evolution continues, where each word becomes a fundamental building block in a larger process. The inherent power of each word, the word itself, takes on a completely different weight. That's it and nothing else. So it has begun. Word after word, building block after building block, speech series that propel us forward and add new events and rhythmic events. It is. Even now I understand that I am stuck in this inexorable stream of text in the direction of something. It continues. Moves. Further. Becomes. Turns into this and this and that. Nothing would be the same after this encounter with this text. I start reading it out loud. Starts playing the piano along with the text reading. I read and sing my way through the text. The game and the speech form new units where each phrase becomes part of a larger verse.

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