Tropism VI

Tropism VI

Tropism VI is our last audio piece in the Tropisms project, which started out with a re-reading of Nathalie Sarraute's 1939 collection of mini-essays of the same name. I leave you with this excerpt from her piece, Tropism I,

They seemed to spring up from nowhere, blossoming out in the slightly moist tepidity of the air, they flowed gently along as though they were seeping from the walls, the boxed trees, the benches, the dirty sidewalks, the public squares.

They stretched out in long, dark clusters between the dead house-fronts. Now and then, before the shop windows, they formed more compact, motionless little knots, giving rise to occasional eddies, slight cloggings...