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TETRA · 2021
- Sl2
- St
- Wn
- Dv
Intergalactic Glucose
Dépaysement is the ghost note, the disorientation of playing so far outside any context that could answer back.
Dépaysement
The Uprooted
A WORD ENGLISH NEVER MADE · READ THE CUSTOMS HOUSE
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French. The disorientation of being out of your element. Neither travel nor exile, but the specific vertigo of being somewhere your instincts do not work.
The word
French, from pays, country: the state of being un-countried. It carries no judgment either way, which is the point. French needed a word for what happens to a person removed from everything that usually confirms them.
The feeling
The floor of habit gone. Street signs read wrong, bread tastes different, your own name sounds foreign in another mouth. It can land as anxiety or as exhilaration, usually both, and it makes the senses work at full resolution the way they never do at home.
Against its neighbours
Confusion wants resolving. Dépaysement can be savored; travelers cross oceans to feel it. Hiraeth looks backward at a lost home; dépaysement stands in the new place, ears ringing, and looks around.
In the work
A figure at wrong scale, or a familiar body in an atmosphere that will not hold it. Displacement rendered as physics.
2 works composed with Dépaysement
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SOLDACCOLADE · 2023- Wn2
- Aw
- Tm
- Dv
Age of the Stars
Dépaysement is the ghost note: a cradle nowhere near home, the comfort of being entirely out of context.
