Let Charlotte Adigéry Guide You into a Yin Yang Self-Meditation
One of my own personal gurus, the flawed but wonderful human vessel called Kurt Vonnegut, once described the act of reading literature like “meditating with someone else’s mind”. It sounds good, but if you’ve ever meditated and watched your own damn mind you’ll know it’s a hectic, hot mess in there … a jumble of mental routines, patterns, assumptions and tightly wound spirals … like micro-managing snakes eating their own familiar tails. (The good news is: once you’ve watched them, you can let them go.) Charlotte Adigéry, also a wonderfully flawed human being, has just released a guided yin-yang meditation that takes you into your breath, your body and then into the mind of the artist herself, exploring her personal fears.
Charlotte’s label, DEEWEE, is releasing this not only as a video, but also as a cassette tape. Side A his Charlotte’s meditation. Side B is empty so you can tape your own thought patterns mediation and start letting go of your own personal mental sinkholes. As with everything DEEWEE does, the level of thought and detail that went into making this is mental.
Now take a seat.
Take a moment to arrive here, in your body, in this moment.
And listen.
From DEEWEE:
“The project was recorded and filmed at the DEEWEE studios with go-to collaborator Bolis Pupul, the Dewaele brothers, label art directors Ill-Studio and director Jorre Janssens. The Yin Yang Self-Meditation gives the listener a brutally honest view in the artist’s mind, exposing personal experiences, struggles and worries. Racism, self-discipline, relationships and other subjects are shared by Charlotte over a meditative soundscape defined by a continuous heartbeat, however tackled by a self-written mantra moments later as a cool down. The 17-minute tape builds to a climax when Charlotte takes you into a moment post-show with all of her thoughts bouncing off the walls, eventually reaching a panic attack. A stream of consciousness with all her fears and destructive thoughts. “This tape is an invitation to myself and eventually others to look inwards. It is a ritual for letting go. I was tired of being stuck in a narrow mental reality and I wanted to look beyond. The suffering is not caused by the problem itself. We worry about not having enough. We are anxious about rejection. We fear being misunderstood. We even fear things that lie in the future we do not control. In this meditation I invite you to follow my voice into my own mental state, through paralyzing thought-patterns and blind fears I want to say goodbye to. Openness can lead to understanding, unity and compassion.”
Recorded, produced, mixed and filmed at DEEWEE
Video directed by Jorre Janssens
Art Direction by Ill-Studio