Ten Days in Fructidor CCXXIX by INFRADRIZZLE

Alan Holmes (Ectogram, Parking Non-stop, Fflaps, many others) and Zoë Skoulding

Infradrizzle’s experiment in altered sensory time began when they caught Covid in the late summer of 2021 and spent each of their ten days of isolation improvising together with all the instruments (and potential instruments) they could find in the house. This collage of the results, sequenced chronologically through their recovery, is layered with sung and spoken cut-up text derived from Zoë’s 2020 poetry collection A Revolutionary Calendar. The title refers to the calendar introduced in France in 1793, which had decimal ten-day weeks and days renamed after plants, animals and farm tools. Months were named after seasons: ‘Fructidor’ is the month of fruitfulness.

Live and Indirect at 20:00 UTC+1 on Sunday 29 September 2024 on Repeater Radio.

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