The Galileo Files

This col­lec­tion of files draws its inspi­ra­tion from a first draft, The Galileo Fil­er, a mon­tage of very short texts for the web in the form of files on var­i­ous aspects of the life and prac­tice of the per­form­ing arts pub­lished until most recent­ly on silent​cul​ture​.org. The Galileo Fil­er project was born out of my expe­ri­ence of work­ing with per­cus­sion­ist and com­pos­er Bruno Paquet at the Galileo Work­place that we co-found­ed and main­tained for over ten years through a series of pro­duc­tions for the stage and oth­er works for the com­mu­ni­ty. I refer to the archival site of the Danse Kalashas and the Mahapooram Ensem­ble, the Galileo Work­place, for an overview of the activ­i­ties that have tak­en place at the Galileo Spaces where groups of par­tic­i­pants have enjoyed work­ing as gen­er­al­ly evi­denced by the sup­port received. The post­ing of the Galileo Fil­er (Fichi­er Galilée) had to be aban­doned fol­low­ing updates on the appli­ca­tion used on the serv­er-side to retrieve data from the online data­base. The suc­ces­sive updates had made the scripts inop­er­a­tive.

The present series, as agreed with Bruno Ji, takes the idea of this first draft of the posts as a source of inspi­ra­tion to rein­vent the for­mu­la. The new Galileo Cards or files go far beyond a nos­tal­gia for the time spent work­ing at the Galileo Spaces. The cards are rather meant to achieve two things as a priority: