UNWORLDISED

memory-essay #3
video 2024

[TRANSCRIPT]In film sound there is a rerecording technique called worldising. The soundscape of a scene is engineered to evoke the perception of the characters onscreen.

How sad it is if fantasy and memory start to take each other’s place. Like screen dreams or rear projections. Phantom fictions of long ago, memorials to what never happened, what could have been. Life not lived, the past as a counterfeit not even believed by its forger. Non-experience mourned. Missed opportunities transformed into ghost memories ... until some cybernetic revolution finally cancels out the loneliness and grief on the outskirts, in the old shadows—so that real and virtual are the same.

The night and the city are beautiful and empty. The sadness and the years have been left behind. No one speaks now of obligation. The line is broken and there are no ties. Unworldised, you are far away. You aren’t there. You can go anywhere, and your pain out in the dark is a measure of the cost not only of having left but also of going back.
[singing]

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