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Performance Principle

by Sparkle Motion

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1.
Scan Lines 01:54
2.
Mirror Maze 04:12
mirror, mirror mirror, mirror mirror, mirror inversely reflecting me mirroring reality mirror maze the deepest gaze echoes of the memories fade
3.
Contré-Jour 04:41
saw his face I saw his face I saw his form exit the stage I saw the curtain take his place I saw the shadow draw its shade I sat until the stillness came I wait behind the windowpane I felt the thought enter my brain the things I'll never feel again saw this place I saw this place that's distant in my current age I saw the eyes without a face I felt the heat of whirring blades wandered through the endless maze I'm mourning what I thought was safe I felt the space the things I'll never feel again
4.
Parity 02:03
ROSEMARY Thank you, Thank you for calling me. DR. HILL I thought you were in California. ROSEMARY No. No, I've been to another doctor, and he isn't good, Dr. Hill; he's been lying to me and giving me unusual kinds of - drinks and capsules. The baby is due on Tuesday - remember, you told me, June twenty-eighth? - well I want you to deliver it. DR. HILL Mrs. Woodhouse - ROSEMARY -Please, let me talk to you. Let me come and explain to you what's been going on. I can't stay too long here. They'll be coming looking for me. Dr. Hill, Dr. Hill-There's a plot. I know that sounds crazy, you're probably thinking, My God, this poor girl has really flipped, 'but I haven't flipped, Doctor Hill, I swear by all the saints I haven't. There are plots against people, aren't there? DR. HILL Yes, I suppose there are. ROSEMARY Well-there's one against me and my baby.
5.
walk to the door search for the key blown by the wind surreality watching the road from my window out in the street turning towards me eyes, your eyes the iris flies eyes, those eyes a dark disguise eyes, your eyes the iris flies eyes, those eyes the darkness hides eyes, your eyes the iris flies eyes, those eyes a dark disguise eyes, your eyes the iris flies eyes, those eyes the darkness hides figure in black waiting for me reflecting back shattering me party of one table for three knife or the key which will it be?
6.
all of these moments replay in my mind I feel vibrations that feel so sublime all of those moments have gone a kiss that persists for so long for so long...
7.
the evils that flirt with our most delicate sensibilities It's that fallacy that permeates all of our lives everything that we do it's that inherent sense of entropy in everything this sexual desire for chaos its that excitement as we await an impending explosion an openness for the exploration of deconstruction and the potential to create something new to rebuild to reformulate the identity like an architectural design it breaks the silence of the moment time is always encased in glass the past that's lost within the present silver gelatin photograph take you away it will take you away
8.
Shower Scene 02:22
9.
time spent hours long lost in love again I've been waiting to take a stab I was floating above again I've been waiting to take a stab hours long lost in love again oh the time on the hour hand as I gaze in your eyes again I've been waiting all day to spend hours long lost in love again all the time spent within your hands it'll solve my predicaments it's always for your love
10.
I replay it over and over In time around me moving slower I replay it over and over I feel I'm sinking now I feel I don't know how I feel I'm sinking now I feel I don't know how I'm sinking now I feel I don't know sun sets on the wasteland I move in synchronous it's not enough in synchronous I move in synchronous it's not enough I move in synchronous in synchronous sun sets on the wasteland

about

"A quick translation of the performance principle would cast it as the way in which a repressive social order is set in place by limiting the forms and quantity of pleasure that the human is allowed. The performance principle is the way in which the dynamism between the pleasure principle and the reality principle are ordered." - Muñoz, "Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity", p. 134

"Men do not lead their own lives but perform pre-established functions. While they work, they do not fulfill their own needs and faculties but live in alienation." - Marcuse, "Eros and Civilization", p. 45

"Queerness, as I am describing it here, is more than just sexuality. It is this great refusal of a performance principle that allows the human to feel and know not only our work and our pleasure but also our selves and others."
- Muñoz, "Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity", p. 135

credits

released March 20, 2021

written, recorded, produced, and mixed by Sparkle Motion
recorded at home and at Studio G Brooklyn
final mixing: Mark Schwartz
mastering: Matt Labozza
cover art: Sparkle Motion

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Sparkle Motion Brooklyn, New York

Founded in 2013 and currently based out of NYC, Sparkle Motion creates a hypnotic atmosphere of dark and frenetic dance by drawing on the production styles of 80's minimalist synth music and the hallucinatory neon of a gay nightclub. The forthcoming album, Performance Principle, celebrates the radical potential of queer performativity against the vulgarity of heteronormative society. ... more

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