II · Coming into the Room
Words 8 · RF@80 Series. Keynote Accompanying Notes Part 2 of 7 – Alexander Technique Congress. August 4th. 2025. Dublin.
The music playing as we were entering the room was chosen to demarcate the threshold.
‘At the End of Time’ was recorded live at All Saints Church, Broad Chalke, Wiltshire on January 14th. 2006. It was a Saturday, and the performance was at lunchtime.
David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ was recorded in Berlin at Hansa Studios in July 1977. The Berlin wall was about 150 meters from the studio with a machine gun turret clearly visible from the studio control room window. ‘Hammond Song’ by The Roches was recorded in September 1978 at the Hit Factory on West 54th. in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC.
So, having moved from the outside, through the Liminal Zone, we are now on the inside. This is our time, this is our space. Here we are.
We begin . . . We begin where we are.
Before we do something, we do nothing. I prefer this cataphatic injunction to the term non-doing. We begin by Doing Nothing: we cultivate a Still Point from which all action proceeds. And while Doing Nothing, we become present.