Do objects have feelings ? The idea for this piece came out of reflections on Mario Perniola's book "The sex appeal of the inorganic". This is the complete script of the "Everyday Objcets" text-sound composition featured on the cd "Element" released by La Muse en Circuit. Words are taken from recorded inteviews with Chiyoko Szlavnics, Thomas Ankesmit and Derek Shirley. What they meant during the interviews may have been porpousefully changed or misunderstood.

"And I forget which object it was - I remember he was at a train station, and he felt that he became another object that was there. I think it was a train. It was something that was physically there, and was close, and... He didn't just feel that he concentrated immensely on this object, and he didn't feel that he was only physically mimicking the object. But he claimed that he truly felt that he had become an inanimate object. A large window, warmed by the sun. He said he realised that there was a difference between becoming another object and concentrating on it, or mimicking it.

Well, every object has a resonance frequency, that means every object starts to resonate by itself when a certain wave is applied to it of a certain frequency.
An unburned cd, an old factory window.

If a truck or an airplane passes by, the windows of your house might shake, but the wine glasses won't.

An old book, dusty. Airplanes. I tried to talk to them, but they just acted like they couldn't even see me, they didn't even pay any attention to me, it was strange . Which is why I can feel certain objects have a life, and other objects don't. Certain objects are sensitive to certain other objects, you could say, certain other emotions. Generally they won't just have these things flow over them or through them, they would work with it or against it. But objects, when you apply heat to a certain object, it will simply melt or burn, it won't flee or protect itself.
To actually feel what does that cd case feel, is such a difficult question. While objects are at the mercy of their surroundings. They became hopeless because of it. Whether they feel or not, I certainly feel something towards them.

How could it be for them ?

How do they move statically ? They stay in a plateau. If you were an object. I mean, how would you feel if you were just purely produced for the purpose of fulfilling a particular function? So that you could fit in, on a shelf, and so many of you could fit in on a shelf, and therefore you are the size you are.
All the dimentions and everything about you was designed purely for mass production, mass consumption.

Maybe a soccer ball being hit very hard over a long field would be an interesting feeling to imagine.

Mass-produced objects, mass-produced, made out of metal or something. The type of object that hundreds of thousands of people around the world have because they all buy that at Ikea, or something like this. I, to an extent, tend to view other people as objects not so dissimilar from inanimate objects or animals. I like to identify myself in objects that move very slowly, and grow very slowly, like perhaps a tree, or a bush. Will go through periods of growing and not growing, losing its leaves, and not losing its leaves .
You could generally perceive the combination of the parts of a particular object that we named, and that we considered merely being that. Well, of course we named every part of our body. So we can speak about individual elements. With different parts of our body, when science decides that they want focus on healing a part of the body, the only way they can do it is by isolating part of the body system, and testing it. Yeah, we speak of the body as something that we own, something that is a part of us. Not only the individual parts, like you imagine the hands, or the brain. But I think most would consider the body a subdivision of themselves. A part of themselves, the entire body. I don't think many people consider their bodies as an object that they are.

It would probably be very mysterious, if you couldn't understand your body as a whole, and just these things that were attached you, and just did things. I would talk about my body as if it were one of the parts that constitutes me. If a person would become an object would be handled by others. (how he would perceive me ? or she would perceive me ? )
I suppose the difference between being a subject, or being an object. Considering a person an object, one might perhaps consider them all individual beings.

One might look at me and address my hairs individually, having to deal with an infinite amount of beings. It would be difficult to know how this person would experience nature because we can understand nature from a purely scientific point of view, and understand the make up of it in terms of atoms, molecules or analysis. But, that person has to analyse each element ... of water ... gosh i don't even know how, how that person could think that way, I could hardly think that way myself.

What we consider an individual person would be multiplied by a number that extends into infinity, and all those elements would still carry that person. So that would be an infinite amount of objects that embody persons. An infinite amount of infinitely small things to be dealt with, the person's surroundings would explode into an infinite number of parts. The wind would be a sequence of an infinite number of air particles moving toward somebody. And they would impact on somebody's skin individually. The skin itself being not the skin, but also a collection. "