"The Beasts of Electra Drive" teaser - power and enormous love
Teaser for the video-book of Rohan Quine's novel "The Beasts of Electra Drive" - teaser 76(i) "power and enormous love". // But as he takes up his laptop, he wonders: what on earth would be the sound of a Beast whose incarnation constitutes the most isolated, yet richest, communication he could have with the world? // Whatever it turns out to be, he feels he's about to fire it upwards through a speaker aimed out into space. Based on her visual art, this song here could be the sound of enamelled steel - a mix of hard and soft allure as never heard, sung by a Beast who reaches out across the roof of the entire world, her claws and snout and gleaming eyes dangerous with power and enormous love. Or else (since she's no saint), her voice could purr like velvet rubbed the wrong way, rise from the land and gather boundary-less and huge across the sky and then pump in a violent raping force above our heads, as she wails out a lurid black fantasy of fire, her compassion shot with hatred. // It could go either way. // By the end of this session, with just a bit of luck, she'll be talking to him, live! So Jaymi sits quiet, gazing down through the tops of those finger-thin cypresses ranged on the hillside, and waits for her to show herself and let him in, to hear what her sound will be... // No signal from her yet. (Is she looking at him now?) // Cicadas scrape dryly in the scrub beyond his swimming-pool colonnade, hidden in the scratchy grass and jagged hairy trunks of palms - never glimpsed but ever heard, chewing like saws at one another as they watch him.