On Running 2: Mirage Sustains

by Simon Barker

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2.	Ground to Body Vertical Flow 06:28	buy track
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Three views of a perception experience

Simon Barker - drums, electric bass
Phil Slater - trumpet
Carl Dewhurst - bells (running)

Recorded and mixed by Richard Belkner at Free Energy Device
Mastered by Michael Lynch
Cover pic: taken whilst running near Mt Kosciuszko

Special Thanks: Phil Slater, Carl Dewhurst, Richard Belkner, Michael Lynch

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released June 21, 2020

Over the past couple of years, I’ve been including lots of hills during barefoot runs and have found that there is less certainty in my mind about how far and for how long I’ve been running when compared to running on flat roads. When I first stopped running without a watch or phone and focused almost entirely on hills, I found this altered experience of the passing of time to be almost stressful, as there are times during runs where I have no idea if I’ve been running for over an hour or under twenty minutes. Over time, I’ve become used to the feeling, and now actively find ways of generating a kind of ambiguous sense of the passing of time and distance by running in areas that are unfamiliar, or by running up and down the same hill a number of times and then moving to another hill to do the same thing.

I’ve also been experiencing a shift in focus that blurs the experience of moving from one place to another due to the fact that, when running barefoot, the primary information flow is from the ground to the feet (instead of from wherever the eyes are focused). Sometimes it feels like the point that I’m running towards, that I’m seeing, becomes blurred by the flow of information from the ground to my body, especially when running on rough roads.

This mix of an uncertainty in the passing of time, and a blurring between the flow of ground-to-foot information and directional sight, feels like a mirage, a kind of collage of ambiguous experiences that I try to hold on to. I love these two forms of blurring that have become central to running barefoot for me, and this music is constructed as a suite of three experiences of this ambiguous feeling.

Simon Barker is a senior lecturer at The University of Sydney/Sydney Conservatorium of Music

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Simon Barker Sydney, Australia

I'm a drummer and I like documenting drumming experiments and explorations. To find out more please visit my website:
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For more high/low drum chants visit:
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