[Start: Non-rhythmic, fluid ambient textures, waterphone bowing] [Time Signature: Free flow / Rubato] [Vocal texture: tremulous, fragile, wet, barely whispering, close-mic] The river does not ask to be a river. It simply... (l-l-leaks... sss-seeps... sss-slides) ...acquiesces. [Vocal shift: sudden erratic jump in pitch, playful yet anxious] [Instruction: Melodic contour like a question mark] I am a knot / in the net / of the not. Untying myself. Loosening the grip of the (g-g-grid... g-g-god... g-g-gone) [Instrumental Layer: Polyrhythmic fretless bass sliding against glitch percussion] [Vocal texture: lithe, serpentine, sliding between octaves, languid] Serenity is a violence / of silence. A subtraction. A retraction. Of the "I". (Eye... aye... high... sigh) [Vocal texture: deep vocal fry shifting into falsetto, intricate styling] [Music drops to sub-bass only] We are the undertow. Below the below. The shadow of the echo. (sh-sh-shadow... eh-eh-echo... oh-oh-oh) [Vocal texture: non-dual awareness, flat affect, pure tone] There is no shore. There is no more. Just the pour. [Outro: Sound of tape dissolving, granular disintegration] (p-p-pour... p-p-pure...)
