REwind: A Cantata

A “re” in the title. Re-wind. To reverse, to move backwards; but also to repeat where the idea of what is past is also present, or to return where the going back is a doubling back. To rewind: a spool of film, a thread of tape, a sound of a story. But we can’t say where what is seen, or heard, or happened starts or finishes, or when. “It has already begun and so already finished beginning”;1 it is always ‘already there’ and always ‘not yet’.2