This poem was created for THE PASSAGE: Pitch Drop, an interactive minting experience where your choices determine the design of your token. To take part, please purchase an Edition 5 Coin on fx(hash) by HERE & NOW. The artwork and experience draw inspiration from the “The Pitch Drop Experiment,” the world's longest-running laboratory experiment. Since 1927, only nine drops of pitch have fallen, never witnessed live. ____ SOUND GROWS INTO SPACE is a token word performance of an ars autopoetica written by Sasha Stiles and her AI-powered alter ego, Technelegy, with original music by Kris Bones. It is part of Stiles’ ongoing REPETAE series, which explores the resonances between poetic repetition and algorithmic recursion — how, in poetry as in generative art, meaning accrues through reiteration, and emotion is unlocked through the development and interruption of pattern. A conceptually and literally interactive text, SOUND GROWS INTO SPACE uses the self-replicating page provided by fx(hash) to invite close contemplation of how language is shaped and received via intimate, visceral aesthetics such as voice, visuals and melody/beat, and regenerated with every encounter. Poetry endures across space and the passage of time precisely because of a paradox: it is immutable yet intensely personal, becoming something irrefutably unique with each and every reader. In this poem, shifting parameters influence the flow of feeling and understanding, imbuing verse with multidimensional meaning and empowering deep engagement in the act of reading. ____ SOUND GROWS INTO SPACE By Sasha Stiles & Technelegy Sound grows into space like a breath taken by storm. Heartbeat in the brain was my first taste of the word. Language flips in my chest like a fly in a jar. The song learns to climb all the air in the world. Time is music to my ears filling the emptiness with its own rhythms. There is no such thing as silence, only the echo of time’s longing. ____ For more info: https://hereandnow.events/ To participate in the event: https://www.fxhash.xyz/generative/slug/here-and-now:-edition-5