out now · ada miēle — s/t ep [ bandcamp ] [ apple music ]
▶ play ada miēle — be honest
ada miēle — be honest · videoclip [ play ]
out now · sovereign draft, book, perks editions [ read ] [ perkseditions.com ]
忘れない、忘れたふりだけ。 — we do not forget, we only pretend to.
読まれない手紙の方が長く生きる。 — letters that are not read live longer.
録音は記憶ではない、症状である。 — a recording is not a memory; it is a symptom.
うすい声で書く。 — write in a thin voice.
名前は仮のもの、住所も仮のもの。 — names are temporary, addresses also.
小さな機関を建てる、小さな機関を解く。 — build a small institution, dissolve a small institution.
774339 は数字ではない。 — 774339 is not a number.
plaster casts of pianists' hands have been reproduced, mis-attributed, and sold as relics since the late nineteenth century. the cast we keep nearest is labelled liszt, 1886, in a hand that is almost certainly not from 1886. it is small, and the index finger is broken at the second knuckle.
liszthandsscroll →
we are interested in the moment a relic is pressed against an instrument it never touched. an authenticity that depends on belief, paper, and the tilt of a museum vitrine.
the sovereign draft book began as a short film and turned into something impossible and interminable. everything that could not fit inside one hundred seconds of music video. a dark fantasy of lore, a sisyphean post-digital cosmogony.
sovereign draftstills · scroll →
tapes that were never released, only described in letters. one of them is said to begin with the sound of a fridge being unplugged in another room and the voice of a child counting backwards from seven. there is no recording. there is the description.
u*p*b*mscroll →
a slow, partial index of things we wanted to keep nearby.
