A Walk with Bongi through Alex.

A Walk with Bongi through Alex. began nearly 800 kilometers south of the township with Bongi Dhlomo-Mautloa’s installation in progress at the Grahamstown Festival 2000. The idea emerged of not only showing the visual riches of the township but also documenting a day in its aural life. ⇒

Hi, I’m Rudiger Meyer, a composer interested in the play between music, sound, and media. This site, my home on the web, is part documentation, part experimental playground. It is also a place for writing – from notes & tweets to more extensive articles.

Since 2019 I’ve also been involved in creating and helping establish a platform for poetic podcasts (mostly in Danish). I’ve written about the process of creating some of those productions here.

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Photograph of the cover of Lene Henningsen’s “Atomar” (Atomic Scars).
Photograph of physical copies of Lene Henningsen’s “Atomar” (Atomic Scars) and “Weiss-Manettis forudsigelse” (The Weiss-Manetti Prediction) on a window sill with a small porcelain cat overlooking them.
Photograph of page 41 of Lene Henningsen’s “Weiss-Manettis forudsigelse” (The Weiss-Manetti Prediction) with the following text: – When we are able to store and manipulate electrons in a controlled way, without their entangled state collapsing (our work with potential wells has shown promising results in this direction), we will have a system that is capable of existing in a myriad of states at the same time. – All of these states will evolve as a myriad of calculations or conclusions that run in parallel. By forcing (i.e. measuring) the system, it can change from being in a superposition¹ of all these states, to being in only one of them. Following these conclusions, we can predict that since the state the system ends up in is not deterministically set, but driven by probabilities, we have the basis for creating something with an intelligence and creativity comparable to that of the human. (R. Weiss and E. Manetti)
Photograph of a page from Lene Henningsen’s “Atomar” (Atomic Scars) with the following words (in Danish) spread out across the page: Wanderer in the sun paying attention to detail the dusty grey sole of the shoe leather skin black eyes the movement of the tongue dragging me over earth’s crust somewhere in my thoughts about you no life is average worn-out illusions are just so disturbingly normal I touch a picture with feelings so pasty that they fold between the fingers here or here skin and fur I can calmly and quietly with a feather animal and human stumble over the stones pick up a sun temple and say thank you for the name deeply under your sky that moves me

It’s been a great pleasure to finally have physical copies of Lene Henningsen’s Atomar and Weiss-Manettis forudsigelse in my hands. The Weiss-Manetti Prediction, my translation of the novel, is now also available via Maggies Mill.

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