family voices

written on 11 march 09:

I've started transferring the cassettes I have of my family. it's not the easiest thing: hearing the voices of dead loved ones is strange and oddly discomfiting. instead of feeling closer to them by hearing their voices, I feel forced to face how far away they really are. so I've started with the tapes I know to be less interesting and therefore less fraught: my mother practicing recitation of various monologues. I'll keep you posted on how this goes...