Sound Can Remain with What Is
- Julie Jewels Smoot
- Jan 12
- 1 min read

Sound is often used to move us somewhere else.
Toward calm.
Toward clarity.
Toward a different state.
But sound does not need to create change in order to be supportive.
In this work, sound is allowed to remain with what is already here.
It does not pull the body forward or ask it to soften.
There are moments when the body settles on its own.
There are moments when it does not.
Sound does not prefer one over the other.
You are welcome to listen while alert.
While tired.
While distracted.
While unsure.
Sound can accompany effort without trying to undo it.
It can be present alongside tension without trying to resolve it.
Nothing needs to shift for the sound to belong.
If a sense of ease arrives, it arrives on its own time.
If it does not, the sound remains anyway.
There is no outcome being prepared for.
There is no state you are meant to reach.
Sound stays without expectation.
And in that staying, the body is not asked to do anything at all.



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