20/10/2022
He sits with his legs open upon a broken tree trunk, his shoulders slightly hunched forward whilst balancing his yidaki with his left hand. He does not notice me at first, but I watch admirably as his cheeks pump continuously into the instrument, his shoulders rising and quivering, the action of the circular breathing creating the oscillating rhythm. I can feel the multi-layered droning tones coming through his body and his eyes, darting around the umbrella canopy, suggest he is in a trance state. It is as if he is communicating through his didgeridoo and I am listening to a secret grounded language beyond what the mundane can possibly understand.
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