11 · Laya

Artwork for »Stretches«. A softly rendered, dreamlike figure floats within a bright, empty space. The body appears shaped from mist, with blurred edges and only loosely defined limbs. The posture is slightly twisted—one arm extended, one leg bent—as if the person is caught between falling, stretching, and release. In the chest, a faint glowing spiral suggests an inner swirl of breath, energy, or awareness. The face is calm, eyes closed, giving the impression of drifting in a state of deep sensing or inner spaciousness.

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Credits & AI

Lyrics: Dschafaa

Produced with: Suno (AI-generated music & vocals based on the original text)

This track was created in collaboration with generative AI. Text, concept, and the choice of version are by Dschafaa; Suno generates the sonic realisation and voice from the submitted material. INT versions intentionally carry what is spoken in the German and English originals into another language, without aiming at literal translation.

Lyrics

ᒫᓐᓇ
ᒫᓐᓇ
ᐅᐱᕐᓇᖏᑦᑐᖅ
ᐃᓐᓇᑎᖅᑐᖅ
ᒫᓐᓇ
maanna
maanna
upirnangittuq
innatiqtuq
maanna

Jetzt
jetzt
erstaunlich
zu Bett gehen
jetzt
Now
now
amazing
going to bed
now

ᐊᐅᓚᔪᖅ
ᐊᐅᓚᔪᖅ
ᐅᐱᕐᓇᖏᑦᑐᖅ
ᐊᐅᓚᔪᖅ
aulajuq
aulajuq
upirnangittuq
aulajuq

Bewegung
Bewegung
erstaunlich
Bewegung
Motion
motion
amazing
motion

ᒫᓐᓇ
ᒫᓐᓇ
ᐅᓕᑦᑐᖅ
ᐊᑯᓐᓂᖓᓃᑦᑐᖅ
ᒫᓐᓇ
maanna
maanna
ulittuq
akunninganiittuq
maanna

Jetzt
jetzt
Flut steigt
dazwischen
jetzt
Now
now
tide is rising
between
now

ᐊᐅᓚᔪᖅ
ᐊᐅᓚᔪᖅ
ᐅᐱᕐᓇᖏᑦᑐᖅ
ᐊᐅᓚᔪᖅ
aulajuq
aulajuq
upirnangittuq
aulajuq

Bewegung
Bewegung
erstaunlich
Bewegung
Motion
motion
amazing
motion

ᒫᓐᓇ
ᒫᓐᓇ
ᐅᑎᕐᕕᒃ
ᐅᕿᑦᑐᖅ
ᒫᓐᓇ
maanna
maanna
utirvik
uqittuq
maanna

Jetzt
jetzt
Zeit der Rückkehr
leicht
jetzt
Now
now
time of return
light
now

ᐊᐅᓚᔪᖅ
ᐊᐅᓚᔪᖅ
ᐅᐱᕐᓇᖏᑦᑐᖅ
ᐊᐅᓚᔪᖅ
aulajuq
aulajuq
upirnangittuq
aulajuq

Bewegung
Bewegung
erstaunlich
Bewegung
Motion
motion
amazing
motion

ᐊᐅᓚᔪᖅ
ᒫᓐᓇ
ᐊᐅᓚᔪᖅ
ᒫᓐᓇ
ᐅᐱᕐᓇᖏᑦᑐᖅ
ᒫᓐᓇ
aulajuq
maanna
aulajuq
maanna
upirnangittuq
maanna

Bewegung
jetzt
Bewegung
jetzt
erstaunlich
jetzt
Motion
now
motion
now
amazing
now

*Lexical orientations based on tusaalanga.ca.

τρόποι

a quiet side room
for those who wish to linger with the song

Notes on Resonance and Tradition

In listening, a proximity arises to forms of speech in which repetition is not understood as a rhetorical device, but as a necessary condition of presence. The voice does not work toward intensification, but toward duration. It keeps something open by saying it again.

The song resonates with ways of speaking in which language does not primarily differentiate, but connect: breath to breath, moment to moment.
What is passed on is not information, but state.
What is said matters less than the fact of being said.

Another resonance appears where meaning does not precede sound, but emerges with it. The words carry weight, but they do not press toward interpretation. They remain close to voice and body, to rhythm and recurrence.

The song thus speaks in proximity to traditions in which language is thought cyclically: as something that must be said again and again in order to remain, and that does not exhaust itself in repetition, but stabilizes.

It does not speak about presence.
It stays with it.

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