Oscillation

ERIN: Hi! I’m Erin Kyan. This piece is called “Oscillation”. It’s a piece of soundscaped poetry, about the push and pull of human interaction and relationships.

Oscillation was made for the Rode Podcast Competition in early 2019. The competition had a two minute limit on how long the piece was allowed to be, which was a really fun challenge to try and create something meaningful in that short of an amount of time. There was a special prize for the first 500 entries, and I wanted to be in with a good chance for that, so I wrote and produced this whole piece in only four hours, from start to finish. Enjoy!

[MUSIC: Naked piano chords play]

[MUSIC: Main slow, gentle piano melody plays]

[BG FX: Sound of small waves on a beach]

ERIN: We can stretch our hearts across the ocean and let the waves crash against our collarbones and push and pull us against and away from each other, in and out with the tides.

[BG FX: Waves fade out, wind sounds fade in]

ERIN: We can scatter our souls on the wind and let the gales swirl us together like milk into coffee, manoeuvre us into murmurations of fervour and fulfilment, circling and blending and then diverging again.

[BG FX: Wave sounds fade in over wind sounds]

ERIN: We are not made to be apart, but we are not made to be the same.

ERIN: The space between us is meant to ebb and flow and we are meant to touch and part. But always in sight of each other, always within reach. We are a part of a web, of a world, and the pulse of a beating heart, skin flushing, eyes meeting--it is our nature, our culture, our future.

[BG FX: The sounds continue on their own, without words]

ERIN: "Oscillation" was written, read, and produced by me, Erin Kyan. Find out more about me at erinkyan.com.

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