A pleasant surprise, this themed sound-making project, because of its great variety and disclosing some of Edouard Glissant’s thought on opacity and improvisation. Triple Pocket Napkin Fold is a glimpse into diverse sound-making practices, featuring new compositions by twelve contemporary artists, poets, musicians, and theatre makers.

For this project, GHOST (a nomadic DIY platform co-founded by Mads Bycroft, Kari Robertson and Natalia Sorzano) commissioned artists whose practices engage with concepts or methodologies of opacity and improvisation, key themes in the work of Edouard Glissant, who wrote of these as forms of resistance to dominant culture(s).
A pocket hides what is inside until it can be performatively revealed. From the opacities of poetry and withheld language emerges this collection of folded, layered, improvised, imperfect, and unexpected forms of address: mud dancing, whispers, shouts, laughter, screams and vocal sound making that resist the order of speech.The project emerged from a study group on Glissant’s ‘The Poetics of Relation’ (1990), facilitated in 2019 by GHOST and Tender Center, a queer community space in Rotterdam.

Contributors

With contributions from Ogutu Muraya, The Postpeople, Cannach MacBride, Angela Schilling, Dean Bowen, Karin Iturralde Nurnberg, Isabel Marcos, Milena Bonilla, La Leche Travesti, Aloardi, Megan Cope and Isha Ram Das, and Dani Reynolds. The booklet and sleeve artwork are by contributing artists.

Released by Futura Resistenza in 2023.

Tracklist

1. Megan Cope & Isha Ram Das – Untitled (Death Song) 03:39
2. Milena Bonilla – Angustia (Papaver Somniferum – A. Srtaud – Amapola Mix)
3. Aloardi – La Belleza Del Miedo Es Despertar 03:33
4. Dani Reynolds – Burning Hot Chunk 03:55
5. Cannach MacBride – All Of The Lungs 03:04
6. Dean Bowen – Solemn Simulacrum 04:15
7. Ogutu Muraya – The Bee, The Glass & Me 05:14
8. Karin Iturralde Nurnberg – Nos Persigue La Luna 03:08
9. Isabel Marcos – Freezing Mud 03:02
10. La Leche Travesti – Haunt These Motherfuckers 12:07
11. The Postpeople – Dear Colleague 03:41
12. Angela Schilling – One Of Seven Or More Pieces 03:41