Floating Water Organ

  Green monsoon.

  Dingoes outside the monastery. Black cockatoos make holes in
  the composition. I harvest lotus reeds from my wooden fingers.
  I build a piano in the forest.

  Brother sweeps. Old World palms echo. The leaf orchestra
  performs sounds of collapse. The music makes us remember the
  first edition of rain. Floods are written in the manifesto of the
  ensemble. Gum leaves, tamarind trees and Nagori bull horns.
  
  I remember the floating manuscripts. The missing pages are
  buried under the red house. The illustrations depict a boy riding a
  white-faced heron, an amphora made of coral, whiskey sun, a
  soul without a body. Here, I dig until I find water. I whistle above
  the stagnation of the stream. I place needles in pressure points
  within tectonic plates. Paper moths on piano keys.

  Notes enter the composition as images:

  An unnamed woman seeking permanent residence plays the
  piano in the monsoon. The moon inside Kabir’s body. Buried
  languages.

  A forgotten water organ. Three guinea fowl in a flower garden.
  An effigy of a wood nymph who longs for fire.

  Brother climbs the fragrant staircase towards the openings in the
  floating composition. A love letter in the insurgent’s handwriting.
  Sulphur. Wild mustard.

  Babel.

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Whelk is an ambient music and poetry collaboration between multi-instrumentalist Genevieve Fry and artist Manisha Anjali. Whelk is made of ethereal harp, textural percussion and otherworldly incantations.
  Genevieve Fry is a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Naarm. Interested in exploratory music drawing inspiration from the natural world, their soundscapes encourage an inward journey touching on deep time, memory and sense of place.
  Manisha Anjali is a poet and researcher. She is the author of Naag Mountain, published by Giramondo. Manisha is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne.