On 23/09/19 at about 12 (CEST) a cardboard box was found at the front door of our studio. The only information on the box (handwriting all caps) was a small code (A.D. 2020) and the cryptic warning "KEEP AWAY FROM MAGNETIC FIELDS". As we opened the box a smell of old attic spread like if the content was sealed in there since forever. Inside the box we found 12 dusty folders, each including a variable number of magnetic tape spools and disparate items (paper material, prints, photographs, VHS tapes...). The puzzling findings unfold a high degree of space-time discrepancy, with dates, locations and names that don't add up, certainly leaving the awareness of being faced with a very strange puzzle, way too elaborate to be a joke, too full of meanings to be a fake. Unable to tell what it was, we decided to start an archive to catalog and publish the content of the box, one folder at the time. We called it: Dust Archive.
What follows is the content of the eighth folder
Dust Archive protocol code: D.A. #008 - A.D. 2020
∙ [SP#030] to [SP#032] spools of tape
∙ [IT#017] black and white abstract print
∙ [IT#018] torn page of an agenda, the date is 6 of October, the year unknown. Transcription follows:
"Day 1 at 37°07′N 116°03′W
ninety-second floor, late night
someone playing piano next door
outside the window present, past and future coexist
stare at the flashing lights on top of the skyscrapers
and the cars passing by
piano music keeps playing
open the door and the music reverberates through the hallway
and the stairwell
press "rec" on my tape recorder
fall asleep
when I wake up the reel runs idle, day-light, the door is still open
walking out I check the name on the door bell, Luca Buosi
coming home later, hallway at the ninety-second floor, time stops
blood freezes, the apartment next door is no more
no door bell, no door
rewind the tape and the music is there
a souvenir
from nowhere
Creative process:
phase 1 (present | existence) – record
phase 2 (future | awareness) – sleep
phase 3 (???) - this is what was actually recorded"
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