The Music by Matthew Herbert

Author:Matthew Herbert
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2018-03-21T16:00:00+00:00

7.

Tenuto

To be rich

In London, the head of a sticky mop, twisted, turning, squeezed into a plastic bucket. The remnants of blood, water dripping in uneven thick droplets. The shuffle of a nylon tunic, and the slip of a pair of bangles down a wrist as a hand moves further along the mop handle. Another twist of the mop, fewer drops. An unexpected cough. A security turnstile. Someone else is pulling on gloves as a supervisor repeatedly flips their phone in silence.

Elsewhere, inside the cheap plastic toy model of a refuse truck that was received as a present some years ago, a two-year-old battery has leaked and created a kind of crusty webbing between the toy’s driver’s seat and the door. This acidic crust has created a tiny, subtle high-end rub at the point of impact that otherwise would have been a simple, smooth, brittle snap when stood upon by an oblivious parent. As we hear that noise, the stereo image opens up to a stacked soundscape of two communities of families living on and among rubbish dumps somewhere in the world, each recorded from an omni microphone slung from an extra-long series of cables strung beneath a pair of cranes.

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