To begin the placing there is no wagon.wav

"To begin the placing there is no wagon. There is no change lighter. It was done. And then the spreading, that was not accomplishing that needed standing and yet the time was not so difficult as they were not all in place. They had no change. They were not respected. They were that, they did it so much in the matter and this showed that that settlement was not condensed. It was spread there. Any change was in the ends of the centre. A heap was heavy. There was no change."

Excerpts from the poem Tender Buttons, part 3, "Rooms" by Gertrude Stein (in public domain on Project Gutenberg). Reading by Ariane Stolfi. To be performed at the Web Audio Conference in Berlin (19-21 September 2018).