Like Dust by Yea Big and Jon Byler Dann

...It was afternoon, it must’ve been. The sun was shining through. I was just standing there, waiting, and I saw dust floating in the sunbeam shining through the window. I was just staring at the dust floating there. Transfixed. You know what I mean? And I obviously didn’t have the language then to describe what I felt—I mean, I’m not sure I have the language now, I’m not sure English can do it—but in hindsight it’s like it was my first experience of consciously understanding, without words getting in the way, that things exist all around me, all the time, that I can’t see or hear or touch, that under normal circumstances are hidden. ... Most of reality is like that, you know, invisible to us. It’s all there but we can’t see it. We can’t feel it. We can’t hear it. It might as well not exist. But it does exist. And sometimes we can catch a glimpse. We see it, or hear it. And there’s a new real. You know what I mean? And I glimpsed it then.

Yea Big is Stefen Robinson, solo and in collaboration. Multi-instrumentalist music-maker in Bloomington, IL. Sounds range from hip-hop to electro-acoustic compositions to free-improvisation. Other projects include Nønl!near Fi3ld (https://www.instagram.com/nonlinear_field/), Shoshin Trio (http://shoshintrio.bandcamp.com), and directing the NCHS Experimental Ensemble (https://nchsee.bandcamp.com/).