In Flux
Owen Teale & Thalissa Teixeira read poems and prose on adolescence, politics and metaphysics. Music from Glass, Holst, Aphex Twin to Haydn. Writers include Nietszche & Emily Berry
Owen Teale and Thalissa Teixeira with readings and music exploring ideas about change, chaos and becoming.
'When you practice intimately and return to where you are, it will be clear that nothing at all has unchanging self'. So says Dogen, the medieval Japanese philosopher whose words are positioned to respond to Emily Berry's poem The Old Fuel depicting the pain of carrying on with one's emotional routines when external circumstances have changed. The tension between rigidity and flux is a recurring theme. Some of the works featured seem surprised to observe that flux is the condition of all things. If Berry struggles to accept it, Virginia Woolf presents change as being contrary to our every-day expectations, and Carson McCullers' teenager Frankie finds it as baffling as the transition from Winter to Spring. The note of anxiety is picked up by Philip Glass and Haydn. Heraclitus, Nietzsche and Marx brag that they see change as the natural condition of things, but the tone of enthusiasm in their accounts is suspicious. The inevitability of it is better captured by Seamus Heaney's Bog Queen - even in what appears to be stasis, flux rules whether we're excited about it or not. We hear flux and stasis in Steve Reich's Piano Phases, music from SUNN 0))) and Aphex Twin. Marianne Moore, Marcel Proust, and Chuang Tzu, seem more moved by the beauty of transience.
READINGS:
Heraclitus fragments translated by Philip Wheelwright
Edmund Spenser Ruines of Rome
Friederich Nietzsche The Will to Power translated by Walter Kaufmann
Hannah Sullivan Repeat Until Time: The Heraclitus poem
Karl Marx and Friederich Engels The Communist Manifesto
Marianne Moore A Jellyfish
Chuang Tzu from the Book of Chuang Tzu
Carson McCullers The Member of the Wedding
Emily Berry The Old Fuel
Dogan Genjo Koan
Gerard Manley Hopkins Pied Beauty
Ovid Metamorphosis Book VIII translated by Samuel Garth
Ted Hughes Tales from Ovid
Seamus Heaney Bog Queen
Virginia Woolf Orlando
Marcel Proust Swann's Way translated by CK Scott Moncrieff
Edmund Spenser Two Cantos of Mutabilitie
Producer: Luke Mulhall
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Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:00
Richard Wagner
Das Rheingold: Prelude
Performer: Sir Georg Solti, Wiener Philharmoniker.- DECCA4555562 [2].
- CD1 Tr 1.
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Heraclitus
Fragments, trans. Philip Wheelwright, read by Owen Teale
00:05Gustav Holst
The Planets: Mars, Bringer of War
Performer: Lorin Maazel, L聮Orchestre National de France.- CBS CD37249 [1].
- Tr 1.
Edmund Spenser
Ruines of Rome, read by Thalissa Teixeira
00:10Olivier Messiaen
Quartet for the End of Time: Vocalise pour l聮ange qui announce la fin du temps
Performer: Octuor de France.- CALLIOPE CAL9898.
- Tr 2.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Will to Power, tran. Walter Kaufmann, read by Owen Teale
Hannah Sullivan
Repeat Until Time: The Heraclitus Poem, read by Thalissa Teixeira
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
The Communist Manifesto, read by Owen Teale
00:17Sunn O)))
The Grimm Robe Demos: Black Wedding
- HYDRA HEAD HH666-93.
- Tr 1.
Marianne Moore
A Jellyfish, read by Thalissa Teixeira
00:19Francis Poulenc
Les Mamelles de Tiresias, from Acte 1
Performer: Andre Cluytens, Cours et Orchestre du Theatre National de l聮Opera-Comique.- EMI CDM7631542 [1].
- Tr 2.
00:22Steve Reich
Piano Phase
Performer: Kevin Griffiths, the London Steve Reich Ensemble.- CPO 7773372 [1].
- Tr 6.
Chuang Tzu
from The Book of Chuang Tzu, read by Owen Teale
Carson McCullers
the Member of the Wedding, read by Thalissa Teixeira
00:27William Blake, The Fugs
The Fugs First Album: Ah Sunflower, weary of time聟
Performer: The Fugs.- BIG BEAT CDWIKD119 [1].
- Tr 2.
Emily Berry
The Old Fuel, read by Thalissa Teixeira
Dogen
Genjo Koan, read by Owen Teale
00:33Peter Westergaard
Mr & Mrs Discobbolos: First Recitative
Performer: The Group for Contemporary Music.- CRI SD 271.
- Tr 2.
00:35Joseph Haydn
Symphonie No.45 in F sharp minor: 1. Allegro assai
Performer: Ton Koopman, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.- ERATO ECD88173.
- Tr 5.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty, read by Owen Teale
00:41Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV 565
Performer: Karl Richter.- DECCA 4176792 [1].
- Tr 1.
Ovid
Metamorphosis, Bk VIII, tran. Samuel Garth, read by Thalissa Teixeira
Ted Hughes
Tales from Ovid, read by Owen Teale
00:48Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV 565
Performer: Catrin Finch.- KISSAN KISSANCD007.
- Tr 1.
Seamus Heaney
Bog Queen, read by Thalissa Teixeira
00:52Fairport Convention
Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
- Universal Island Record Ltd GBAAN6900035.
- Tr 7.
Clarence Ellis
The Pebbles on the Beach, read by Owen Teale
00:56Aphex Twin
Bucephalus Bouncing Ball
- Crysalis Music Ltd T0100519230.
- Tr 4.
Virginia Woolf
Orlando, read by Thalissa Teixeira
Marcel Proust
Swann聮s Way, trans. C.K Scott Moncrieff, read by Owen Teale
01:06Philip Glass
Metamorphosis 2
- SONY CLASSICAL SMK45576 [1].
- Tr 2.
Edmund Spenser
Two Cantos of Mutabilitie, read by Owen Teale
01:11Johann Strauss II
Blue Danube Reprise
Performer: Vienna Philharmonic.- Tr.
Broadcasts
- Sun 30 Sep 2018 17:30大象传媒 Radio 3
- Sun 8 Dec 2019 17:30大象传媒 Radio 3