Duende

The Dark Sound

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Spanish. The dark spirit that enters a maker during real work. Lorca separated it from the muse, who dictates from outside, and the angel, who guides. Duende climbs from the soles of the feet and takes the body. It requires death somewhere in the room. It cannot be learned or invited.

The word

Spanish, contracted from an old phrase for the master of the house: a household spirit. Federico García Lorca's 1933 lecture made it the name for the dark force in real performance, the thing that is not muse and not angel, that climbs up from the soles of the feet and needs a living body and the nearness of death.

The feeling

Possession during making. The work stops being executed and starts being survived; the voice cracks in the right place, the line goes somewhere the plan never held. There is danger in it, and everyone in the room feels the temperature change. It cannot be scheduled, only invited.

Against its neighbours

Inspiration descends, polite and luminous. Duende ascends, with mud on it. Fervour burns outward as pure energy; duende burns inward, and its fire has grief and death mixed into the fuel.

In the work

A passage the plan did not contain, kept anyway. Duende is identified after the fact, never before, and it cannot be composed on purpose.

2 works composed with Duende

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Duende

The word

The feeling

Against its neighbours

In the work

2 works composed with Duende

So Sick of Feeling

The Rage In My Resonance

How big, actually.

Paper, or canvas.

PRINT

CANVAS

Framed, or not.

NONE

BLACK

Composed with

The rest of the Rare-Liminal family

Where Duende sits Du · RARE-LIMINAL FAMILY

Country & currency

The word

The feeling

Against its neighbours

In the work

2 works composed with Duende

So Sick of Feeling

The Rage In My Resonance

The list hears first.

Composed with

The rest of the Rare-Liminal family

Where Duende sits Du · RARE-LIMINAL FAMILY