On Connection: 'Powerful' MATT HAIG (Faber Social)

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It wasn’t only about the words themselves, but how the words spoken in sequence at the right depth of feeling became bridges between emotion and experience. Between audience and stage, between venue and crowd. Between the day that everyone in attendance had brought into the room with them, and the prospect of the night to come. When the connection is made, everything is linked and moving towards a moment of mutual feeling, a creative connection that binds the entire room into a unified present. In September 2013, their play Hopelessly Devoted was produced by Paines Plough and premiered at Birmingham Rep Theatre. [20] Music wasn’t just an escape for Tempest, it also shifted people’s attention away from their body. “When I had rapping and lyricism,” says Tempest, “ that’s what I was. Everything else disappeared. I almost left my body behind, and became an artist.”

In August 2020, Tempest came out as non-binary, began using they/them pronouns, and changed their name to Kae. [15] Tempest performs hip hop, namely their signature piece Let Them Eat Chaos, at the 2017 Treefort Music Fest in Boise, Idaho Career [ edit ] Alexis Petridis (27 July 2017). "2017 Mercury shortlist fails to spotlight truly exciting British music". The Guardian. Naarmate mijn India-trips achter me lagen begon dit sleutelwoord te slijten. Met mijn voeten weer steeds dieper in Westerse grond kwam de mantra van loslaten, afleiding, verwondering en geduld verder en verder in het Verre Oosten te liggen. On Connection is a thesis on connecting through creativity. Tempest puts it simply in the book: "Telling poems levels the room."

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Everybody Down was nominated for the 2015 Mercury Music Prize and Let Them Eat Chaos have been nominated for the 2017 Mercury Music Prize. Their accompanying poetry book Let Them Eat Chaos was nominated for the Costa Book of the Year in the Poetry Category in 2016. They were nominated as Best Female Solo Performer at the 2018 Brit Awards.

At some point in the book Tempest recalls how they met a homeless person who carried a poetry book with him that connected him with his mother who gave the book to him. It brought him comfort. But Tempest isn’t talking about merely missing a good night out at a gig or show. On Connection looks at creativity as a means of counteracting the numbness of the modern world. We get so caught up in an ever-spinning consumerist hamster wheel that we neglect what is true within ourselves and one another. “In a disconnected state, self-awareness is one of the first frequencies to be scooped out and muted,” they write. “When this happens, I need creativity to reconnect me.” Anyone who has seen Tempest live has likely witnessed their talent for sparking connectionIn their first book of non-fiction, On Connection, Kae Tempest explores how creativity can cultivate greater self-awareness and help establish a deeper relationship between ourselves and the world. i read amanda palmer's art of asking in my second year of university, & it helped me when i was trying to form a framework for thinking about mutuality & vulnerability & performance, it gave me new ideas to use in the ongoing process of ! trying to make sense of what i wanted for myself ! & because i read it because i liked amanda palmer's music, & the messy loudness of her public persona, it felt meaningful to me, to trace out my own emerging thoughts & feelings in the pattern of someone that interested & excited me. i'll never retract my original thoughts on that book, but since then i've consciously parted ways with her as a performer & a persona -- i have no interest in re-reading it & have become much more sceptical abt both it & her. Brand New Ancients was a 75-minute-long poem that I told in theatres, scored for a quartet of drums and electronics, violin, cello and tuba. I wrote the poem over a period of many months, in weeklong bursts of intense creativity, and once it was finished and on its feet touring, I saw first-hand that there were things Tempest-the-writer never knew about the writing that Tempest-the-reader discovered each night with increasing clarity. Themes emerged to me, the reader, once I had committed the text to my body and was delivering it to rooms of people. Patterns to the language that I hadn’t been aware of when I was writing. Patterns between characters. I noticed links that helped me intuit meaning and remember the text, because they gave me a sense of why one passage led to another, but I have to say I was not aware of these links in the same way when I was writing. I have found this to be the case with every work I’ve toured since then. The reader undergoes a process of discovery that the writer side of myself is not involved in. This is why I made the decision to record my most recent album, The Book of Traps and Lessons, in one take, after committing it to memory. To try to get as close to that process of discovery as I could.