Time travel machine

When I listen to recordings I have made with people on country, it feels like going back into the density of that time and place. By going ‘back in’ I can feel new connections, hold time and be with all that is there is in a kind of timelessness. Maybe my little audio recorder is a time travel machine. What else does it do? It makes people shy, self conscious and feel like someone other than the two of us is listening. It constructs me as a researcher, someone who wants to take stories away. Maybe I could story this little machine as a time traveling device, something that allows us to go back in and dwell in the stories of being with country…