Shadow Rounds:
matter
MATTER is the third layer of texts in Shadow Rounds which mainly deal with the physical world in some manner.
The Donne sermon takes the Spital subject of resurrection and the sentences are long, convoluted and labyrinthine, reflecting the subtle weaving of his ideas into words. The sound piece highlights the sentence structures.
The Culpeper text from the introduction to The English Physitian shows his radically modern attitude to received wisdom and his contempt for his contemporaries' understanding of medicine. The sounds used with this text, like the Donne, reflect the written structure.
Huguenot texts are difficult to find. Tourval was a translator who was an early Huguenot immigrant. The text is from his will and has been translated into French and details of the vocalisation of that language make up the sound piece around the text.
The Collins and Doyle trial proceedings and witness statements as well as the Mayhew weavers monologue are too emotionally resonant to analyse in terms of structure or meaning, so they have been accompanied by sound that support or underpin the true import of the words, especially when they seem removed from their true context by the formality of law or the distance of description.
The Spitalfields Mathematical Society text describes an early electrical apparatus. It shows a detached view of the physical world, a controllable phenomenon. The sound implies an alternative understanding and a reality beneath the words.