Life Glitches started with a gap. Stuart Fowkes had built the piece around an Oldenburg market closing for the evening (bells, piano, golden-hour atmosphere) but felt the music alone wasn't telling the whole story. That's where this collaboration begins.
My text grew from something familiar to anyone who has moved through cities that aren't theirs.
the odd intimacy of the accidental glimpse
A woman at a bus stop. A window from a train. Moments that don't belong to you, that you have no right to, and that are already gone before you can name them. Life, glitching, fragmentary, unasked for, briefly luminous.
Life Glitches is part of the Cities and Memory reimagined sound map.
Music by Stuart Fowkes; spoken word by me.