Speakmatic by DyfeddBardd

Speakmatic
(Ekphrastic poem about the Phonic art installation called ‘Resonance’ by Holly Herndon, Sunn olll, TJ Hertz and Phurpa, in the ‘Catalyst art’, Belfast on the 1st August, 2019)

Apprehensive, almost fearful
To encounter a ‘speakmatic’ being
Speaker to me in the frequency of currents
The changing invisible Chladni patterns.

The hint of an anthropic voice
Perhaps, with grunts and roars
Combined to vanish within its manipulation
As if an electrical hymn in a grey hollow church.

Is this how ghosts sing?
Through ‘speakmatic’ a gate way
To this hidden world of cymatics,
A vision telling in its charge of energy.

The human-whale in the darkness of echoes
Haunting wails and moans –
In its long-winded sigh
As if the crazed song of the mermaid’s cry

The dry empty long drainpipes
With the drone from car tires
Reverberating through
I can hear its coiling of an electric hum.

‘Speakmatic’ upon wave lengths
Stretching with its hands of noise
Grabbing with decibels blare
It’s the hypnotic laser.



I cannot hide my brain
The sine waves of its long stare
Speaker to me “I am the resonator,
My name is ‘Speakmatic’.”

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