Jon’s video today is pretty awesome. Kind of a saturated, mysterious, J-pop (in the coloring) Brakhage glitch version of Newman’s Stations of the Cross. The audio track is like a strange signal from some otherworldly station of its own, orbiting the planet just out of detection by our puny terrestrial instruments, the signal ricocheting through our recordings of our memories, picking up bits of our dreams. The signal is telling us something, the combination of the audio and the video, the black spaces between the footage between the black spaces.
Portraits: live remixes of poetic (and other) performances; arrangements of language fragments for the discovery of new truths.
These two portraits are refined versions of sketches of one of Jamie Gaughran-Perez’s readings. Performed during “Via” at a Pyramid Atlantic reading, 2006.
On a run through Rock Creek park this morning, I thought that these would be good epigraphs for the book I’m working towards (title unknown, contents indeterminate) that utilizes the Database of Descriptions. I’m thinking of it as a kind of “mash-up novel,” but with an online interactive component. More on that later.
So, the epigraphs:
I see [systems of] words ~ Hannah Weiner
People of the future: while you are reading these poems, remember, you didn’t write them. I did. ~ Ted Berrigan
Developmental and evolutionary innovation arises from the gathering of incremental predispositions that can be shuffled into advantageous configurations. ~ (Source Unknown (for now))
In the print version, there would probably be “epigraph” pages scattered periodically throughout the text.
In the online interactive version, users would be able to select any phrase and add it to a master epigraph list, thereby generating a kind of crowdsourced framing/introduction of the text. (That’s where the “infinity” of the title comes in. Get it?)
Continuing the music video discovery kick with this amazingly seductive, spooky, Donnie Darko-influenced Bats for Lashes video. Give it until at least :50, if you’re not utterly captivated from the get-go. (Thanks to Robert for the tip!)
another axis of connection
saying I told you
about performance
to take a picture of each
channel, to tell a story
to an idea, a deliberate
integration into what
readies a structure
and releases
thoughts to be
nothing but focus
a sort of mirroring
in the organic local flow
a field of
allowing it
to vary within attention
the intersection
of the shadows
it casts
over time
to modulate a little more
beyond form
to go forward with it
beyond
some sort
of pattern.
of story and texture
an interrupted self-
similarity
continuing to record
the interaction
about what is being
currently recorded
no story behind it
being this breathing
out there
a song from some
sense of a body
a point of
the wave of
some visions of it
a fluid core or cord or chord
a landscape
a fractal experience
[with Jon Lee, fragments of our planning conversation for the first WE ARE SCIENCE! Lab]
