At 21 Gramm

St. Thomas Cemetery Neukölln

 
 

DECAY

A collaboration with Producer and Composer Konrad Black

Hidalgo, Palo Cortado Scully (90y.o.+)

Sadiefamiliewyne, Mev. Kirsten 2018

Rostaing, La Landonne 2007

Mariano Garcia, Cristina Iglesias 2007

Legras & Haas, LTS 2008

Everything passes away, so everything deserves to pass away.

Decay is innate.

Carried by the ingenious sounds composed by Konrad Black, we took a deep dive into the world of decay at the aptly named venue ’21 Gramm’ inside the St. Thomas Chapel in Neukölln.

‘Really Max? ‘Decay’? What a great pick! And so joyful.

‘Well, everything passes, so everything deserves to pass, n’est-ce pas?’

So let me ask you, what is your immediate association with the notion of decay? Yep, Bingo! “Heisenberg” Me too.

Through the lens of the Copenhagen Interpretation, it’s impossible to predict when a radioactive atom, that is, a decaying nucleus, will spit out a particle. In this vein, the process of decay is unpredictable.
In principle, scientific advances are continuously readjusting its predictions when access to new information emerges. Yet in this unusual case, it is not a lack of knowledge but a fact of life, that there is an unbridgeable uncertainty at the heart of quantum space.

In other words, at life’s core, the very fabric of life, lies an unpredictable flow.

We are so deeply immersed within the subjectivity of life, any observation, or attempts at reassuring objectivity, alters life’s course in turn. Unpredictable decay entangled by tension, is part of the drama itself.

The world really is mysterious, not just mysterious by lack of comprehension.

What the hell, Max, you do confuse me, what’s the upshot to this fiercely imprecise portrayal of quantum physics?

Decay implicitly celebrates a reality of possibility! Possibility becomes a real thing. Beings must become what they are, not in isolation but within the midst of life. Perspectives won't remain. Decay transmutes into a force of life.

Congrats, Max. Now you’ve completely lost your mind...

Well, everything passes, so everything deserves to pass... The change we experience is an imperishable change, one that renovates the world over and over again. The cosmos as a harmony of tension – a process of becoming.

A liminal experience.
Sounds reasonable, afterall aye? If not, to hell with ‘reasonable’…

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