{"id":15948,"date":"2026-08-21T11:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esmeralda.local\/chapters\/thirty-birds\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T16:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:49:20","slug":"thirty-birds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/fr\/works\/thirty-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"15948\" class=\"elementor elementor-15948\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f424967 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f424967\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-add9b57 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"add9b57\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9b0c51d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" 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data-id=\"49bcbe2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-582e872 ek-body elementor-widget elementor-widget-tp-animated-text\" data-id=\"582e872\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;tp_anima_type&quot;:&quot;tp_fade_bottom&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"tp-animated-text.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\n<div class=\"tp-animated-text-paragraphs\"><p data-stagger=\"0.08\" data-speed=\"1\" data-lag=\".2\" class=\" liko-animated-text-widget tp-el-animation-heading tp-section-title-span-padding tp_fade_bottom tp-animated-text-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:1.5em;\"><strong><em>Thirty Birds<\/em><\/strong> belongs to <strong><em>The Bird, the Thread, and the Open Sea<\/em><\/strong>, alongside Wings and <strong><em>archipeLogos<\/em><\/strong>, though it stands on its own as a sound piece: an uncertain mental passage that any journey, inward or outward, must first pass through.<\/p><p data-stagger=\"0.08\" data-speed=\"1\" data-lag=\".2\" class=\" liko-animated-text-widget tp-el-animation-heading tp-section-title-span-padding tp_fade_bottom tp-animated-text-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:1.5em;\">In Att\u00e2r's poem, the birds' physical journey towards the Simurgh gradually reveals itself as an inward one, passing through doubt, fear, attachment and transformation. <strong><em>Thirty Birds<\/em><\/strong> follows this psychological movement rather than retelling the narrative. Sentences drawn from the text are spoken close to the ear, in a voice that borrows the intimacy of ASMR while withholding its usual comfort \u2014 whispered, paused, repeated, interrupted.<\/p><p data-stagger=\"0.08\" data-speed=\"1\" data-lag=\".2\" class=\" liko-animated-text-widget tp-el-animation-heading tp-section-title-span-padding tp_fade_bottom tp-animated-text-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:1.5em;\">What begins as a multitude of distinct voices gradually becomes an unstable internal dialogue, as though the thirty birds were different impulses moving within a single consciousness. Nothing progresses through a clear sequence: thoughts surface, dissolve and return altered; questions go unanswered; words become rhythm rather than explanation. The disorder mirrors the birds' own uncertainty as they face the possibility of leaving behind the identities and attachments through which they know themselves.<\/p><p data-stagger=\"0.08\" data-speed=\"1\" data-lag=\".2\" class=\" liko-animated-text-widget tp-el-animation-heading tp-section-title-span-padding tp_fade_bottom tp-animated-text-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:1.5em;\">Behind the voice, recordings of birds gathered in Mesopotamia form a second, wordless conversation \u2014 moving between proximity and distance, sometimes falling into the rhythm of speech, sometimes continuing apart from it. Breath and silence run through the piece as well, marking the moments where language fails or withdraws, until speech itself becomes less description than pulse and resonance.<\/p><p data-stagger=\"0.08\" data-speed=\"1\" data-lag=\".2\" class=\" liko-animated-text-widget tp-el-animation-heading tp-section-title-span-padding tp_fade_bottom tp-animated-text-paragraph\">The birds do not speak with one voice. 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