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bones a humming

from B O D Y P O R T A L S by Jan - Ming Lee

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a poem and soundscape for your bones
Jan - Ming Lee


I see you carrying your bones across this dusty old earth
You look to the clouds for rain

Tracing each bone
As it points you to new terrain

​I see you close your eyes
Slip inside and fall past your eardrums
Dropping further down

You touch yourself with fingertips
And tap tap tap your skin
Listening to the shape of bones.​

They’re starting to hum.
Mmmmmmm

Your soft fingers rooting and touching firmly to your skin
Feeling the sound from deep within.

Your bones are starting to hum.
They’re starting to vibrate

Ancestral words softly singing from oracle bones
Let us float and swim

​You drum your body
Cup your hands
Soft or firm touch touch touch

​Crashing at the edge of sea and land
You map yourself
To find the water deep inside
Listening for the echoes bouncing

You are trembling with life.

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from B O D Y P O R T A L S, released May 25, 2021
Soundscapes by Jan - Ming Lee, recorded with a JRF hydrophone/contact mic, bowls of water, gourds, bathsalt

Track written/produced by Jan - Ming Lee

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British-Chinese musician & dancer experimenting with soundscapes and spoken word, that celebrate our body as sovereignty and home. Creating songs, stories, meditations and soundscapes from and for the visceral felt senses.

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