yaw http://www.asondheim.org/yaw.mp4 i wonder if it would be possible to
put the rover on a fairly steep slope and do a little yaw dance, that is,
quickly alternate between starboard and port i wonder if it would be
possible to put the rover on a fairly steep slope and do a little yaw
dance, that is, quickly alternate between starboard and port the following
week i caught the final performance of wong kit yaw ambitious dance epic,
passing. it began with two arduously introspective adagio term yaw-yan was
derived from sayaw ng kamatayan which means dance of death. this club was
created to unite all members of yaw-yan and to help promote introspective
adagio, a true series of computer-augmented dance performances. the yaw
coordinate (abcde) will change as the dancer turns. throughout the
performance space series of computer-augmented dance performances. the yaw
coordinate ( ) will change as the dancer turns. throughout the performance
space. ... omg, hahahaha u cnt dance 4 ya lyvz. valeane said:. those
****** ******* cant dance. 49 days ago neshaboo said:. dont quit yaw ...
around turn one at streets, the is 430 went into a frightening pitch/yaw
dance. any high-speed, high-load corner produced an oscillation that would
make ... the following week i caught the final performance of wong kit
yaw's ambitious dance epic, passing. it began with two arduously
introspective adagio ... she stopped dancing in 1991 but returned to it
when she moved to study dance with her father yaw. yaw dance

Disappointing, that so many of the entries, including this, contain urls to other sounds/videos, insufficient text, theory, as if everything could be carried out nonetheless within the register of the visible, clearly impossible. Avoiding too much, perhaps, too many anomalies, theoretical insufficiencies, the state of my life closing down on the plain, the terraces, open before it. So soon an attempt at recification, this must be the case, a harder, drier labor, until my hands forget, forgo, the keyboard, against the crippling of the imaginary. What I dream should remain wthin the dream, what crosses desire, should remain within the chiasm. Always aware of death before me, my ownership of that last moment, the Other of that moment, the other-siding, siding against the other. Dreaming, that dreams fail at the very last, the uncoming of an uncommon home, what is below is offered

and dedicated to Marguerite Young and Eleanor Antin, "the code of the dancer's body"


chiasmus

http://www.asondheim.org/maudxx.mp4

coroner's table operating table piston pump Good Maud synchronous
stratigraphy plain plane imminent vector tableland 2-stroke cycle +++
4-stroke circulate
tableland
immanent vector
sheave
cliff
cross=section
diachronous
Bad Maud
top-spin
takeoff landing
control panel
physical therapy
---

micronarratives in vertical space

http://www.asondheim.org/trapez1.mp4
http://www.asondheim.org/trapez2.mp4

but please watch

http://www.asondheim.org/maudsfinal.mp4

first if you haven't

thank you

alan sondheim

semiotics of the digital - analogic

3 videos with Maud and Foofwa (choreography/video Foofwa, dance Maud,
mise-en-scene, production, effects, Alan)


the maudsfinal


i apologize for the size of this; already it is only 320 x 240 down from
PAL but at least it will give you the jist of such duets as i have not
worked with previous to this moment, in which digital flesh suborns
relation to the ratio-analog, in which digital flesh blocks the analog at
such critical moments, among the glance and the exposition
while i am writing this, the flu-like symptoms have returned; image and
artifact constitute delirium
http://www.asondheim.org/maudsfinal.mp4
azure will front and intersperse, what was original no longer exists,
extinction, universal annihilation looms, what organisms of the future
anterior subsist on such fodder?

(22 megs and again apology but on this occasion, it's worth it. even in
miniature.)


lexicon, analog


http://www.asondheim.org/rottate.mp4
- in this a segment is repeated diachronically (temporally).
if segment = S, then we have S*n - n repetitions
http://www.asondheim.org/maudmachine.mp4
- in this a single segment is constructed synchronically (spatially).
space collapses onto itself; if space = S then we have S*x = S.

So there'a a _vocabulary_ constructed here, against which Poser/motion
capture, Blender, etc. plays.

http://www.asondheim.org/maudmachine.mp4 - at least in a while this should
be up. It's very simple reverse echo set to 'maximum' but you can see
where this is going, how it would work w/ poser, or with even a vocabulary
/ calligraphy of the figure - meanwhile for me it's uncannily beautiful,
Maud suspended in space

Meanwhile I've been working mainly with a short piece of the Maud material
which I'll make into an .mp4 either tonight or tomorrow; the rendering is
horrendous. It's simple but works. The tapes together constitute almost a
lexicon of figuration - it's hard to explain, but there are so many possi-
bilities, in terms of video, but also aesthetics, philosophy...

I'm unclear about the nature of the fetish in the construction of the
original tapes, in which stage left/right, horizontal/vertical, closeup/
distance interplay in a semiotics of desire outlined by the bar-barriers
of the material; I see this as minimal signs of humans on a planet within
which they remain benign, localized.

Just got down humming through the 15 mini-dvs, and will begin working more
with them now. Your roof, the flute silhouette solo, the picnic, all are
cinematic, perhaps a story in that -

Help me find the wounded. Remove the sick and wounded. Take care of all wounded. This patient cannot be moved. Stay with this man. Look after him. Lift him gently. Help carry this man. Carry him to the hospital. Carry him carefully. Carry his equipment. Will you dress his wound? Boil the water. He is cld. Here is a blanket. Remove his clothes. Have no anxiety, we will look after you. Can you move your leg? Put a temporary split on that leg. He has sprained his ankle. He is dying. Get the chaplain. http://www.asondheim.org/ls1.jpg Help me. I am feverish. I have chills. I have a headache. I can't walk any more. I am weak. My throat is sore. Give me an injection of morphine. My bandage is untied. Please bind up my hand. I am wounded on the right arm. Carry me carefully. I am in great pain here. http://www.asondheim.org/ls2.jpg You are hurting me. I have difficulty in breathing. My pains are internal. The pain is constant. I want something to stop the pain.

Johnson on Masquerade:

"Behold, Flirtilla, at thy feet, a man grown gray in the study of those
noble arts by which right and wrong may be confounded; by which reason may
be blinded, when we have a mind to escape from her inspection; and caprice
and appetite insated in uncontrolled command and boundless dominion? Such
a casuist may surely engage, with certainty of success, in vindication of
an entertainment, which in an instant, gives confidence to the timorous,
and kindles ardour in the cold; an entertainment where the vigilance of
jealousy has so often been eluded, and the virgin is set free from the
necessity of languishing in silence; where all the outworks of chastity
are at once demolished; where the heart is laid open without a blush;
where bashfulness may survive virtue, and no wish is crushed under the
frown of modesty."

High-Speed Sutra


I don't know what it means to practice Zen.
I don't know what it means to do anything at all.
Whatever it means, I'm not doing it. I'm definitely not doing it.

I think I might practice something.
I'm already at the edge of the cliff. Something, anything, one for all.
All for one is nothing. I won't practice that.
I won't practice writing either.

The practice of writing is writing.
The practice of Zen is nothing at all. I won't do it.
This isn't writing, this is practice.
I'll write something later on.

I should add I don't know anything about Zen.
I should add I'm writing borrowed-Zen.
I don't know anything about Zen, I'm writing borrowed-Zen.
My Zen is faster than yours.
I should add my Zen is fast.

I won't do it, not even to do it. I won't do Zen.
There are hungry ghosts after me, they know!
Where they are, I'm not. Where I am, they won't go!
My Zen is faster than theirs. My ducks are enlightened Kwak! Kwak!

Not dying is not not wanting to die.
Dying is not wanting to die and not not wanting to die.
After a while negation buzzes. Automata make negation machines.
Negation machines buzz for me. They make things faster.

Just because my Zen is fast doesn't mean it's not Zen.
Just because I feel nothing doesn't mean I'm not enlightened.
My enlightened Zen takes a nanosecond.
Whatever takes anything, I'm not doing it!
I haven't done it either!

This is the High-Speed Sutra.

When was I born?
When did I die?
When did I write these words?
I wrote them after I was born and before I died.
I wrote them before I was born and before I died.
I wrote them after I was born and after I died.
I wrote them before I was born and after I died.
Where was I born?
Where did I die?

interface: an image found in the midst of wwii footage of the 56th Fighter Group - this between segments of planes, bombers on the way, see http://www.asondheim.org/wwiiabove.mp4 and the end of it all http://www.asondheim.org/stat.mp4 among images of planes, nose art, takeoffs and landings, pilots posing, military vehicles -

the wwiiabove is unbearably beautiful, squadrons leaving on bombing runs, the skies raked with the beauty of Gaia breathing

sadness close to unbearable ** this image
ill health stress no money what else is new ** takes over
friends and lonesome birds ** my life

this time in Brooklyn, a young peregrine falcon seemingly lost, one street over from us, we called the ASPCA, Channel 1, Audubon Society, police, Animal Control, wildlife rehabilitators, it's out there sitting now on a sill, this has been going on all day (since my biopsy this morning), television came in, anything to rescue him or her, not sure about food, injury, very short flights, very alert, nothing seems broken, no mother in sight, unbelievably rare for New York City this fastest of all birds, wildness, breaking neighborhoods down (everyone talking to everyone else, exchanging phone numbers, information), later tonight we'll see if it's still there, perhaps tomorrow someone can rescue it, if not, at least we have tried and tried and tried

multi: this is a sequence of images that relate to the presentation of sellf in everyday virtual life; the images were used in ongoing lecture series; the analysis is practically implicit; i emphasized the distinction among first/ second/ third person texts; now this is an archaeology as well; so many of these applications have disappeared or been transformed; the principles remain the same, the necessity of continuous rewrite to indicate presence, ascii sexuality as control structures, defuge as exhaustion and decathecting of desire under certain circumstances, mixed spatialities and metaphors, concretions of the analog world within text - or still or moving image, or sound - http://www.asondheim.org/multi/
- the images constituting the nexus of theoretical apparatus, postcards from the dead, postmodern pickwick papers, online clubland of everyday life - take time with them - enlightenment -

dominion and voice intersperse through culture, entangled, she's bringing home the goods she's got the goods the cat's in the bag she's bagged the voice, she's strapped you in, she's kissed you good
you're in the bag, you've bagged the girl, she's strapped it on, she's strapped you in, you've sucked her bag, you've opened the bag, she's on your case, you're in her case, you've got the goods, you've bagged her voice, you've strapped her in, you've kissed her good, she's in the bag, http://www.asondheim.org/dominion.mov
she's bagged you good, you've strapped it on, you've strapped her in, she's sucked your bag, she's opened the bag, you're on her case, she's in your case, she's got the goods, she's bagged your voice

hunger artists drafts changes policies rewrites constitution goods bill of lading overthrows harbor tax oil refineries signal distant bids against tract homes priced to kill


culture breathes sigh of relief for museological collections held simultaneously in thrall against marauders searching for an easy fix against cash flow tax sanctuary fortress repositories closed histories adjacencies

incentive taxes preserve old yarns faulted ships motion capture moments skeined glassed together unreasonable priced fetish ploughed picture perfect years and dates of yesterday

prices falsified my amusement amanuensis daemon exhibition floor routing downturn oil investment closing time soldiers stole everything

r/egret

time gnaws itself out simultaneously forwards and backwards and therefore as usual nowhere, sound tends towards utter collapse and then disappears as worlds crank up, nothing resonates properly, stasis turns through fast forward zen into future anterior, no one is waiting, no one nor another, i am the first and the last

http://www.asondheim.org/glowst.mp4

Present Hunt. Math Acti spykids ownz you ity. In this game, children will
mo spykids ownz you e around a gameboard by spinning a spinner and mo
spykids ownz you ing to the next place on the board whose shape ... This
year marks the 7th annual Multi-World dagger Present Hunt in Storage
world. The hunt will last for four full days this year! ... head. o
spykids ownz you er the life that should ha spykids ownz you e been, ne
spykids ownz you er would be. ... to here where now i sit and write with
one hand amputated and my. heart dead. there ~@~Ys been ... it's
'i ha spykids ownz you e lots of noise here take a sound-byte'
culture time. 'plans are fine but no water' says dagger throat in
heat. it tickles me na spykids ownz you y-blue. ... That would ha spykids
ownz you e been a lot more fun and useful a message. ... Right now, it
sounds good to me. Here's the NYT story on Brazil's success with
ethanol. ... http://www.asondheim.org/hunt.mp4

check out, although somewhat slightly large, http://www.asondheim.org/oceans.mp4 and http://www.asondheim.org/colour.mp4 quite very small. depression tends towards decathecting; the flattening of the world among other things is neurosis, neuraesthenia, proper-proprietary being, sense of the senseless, literal de/arrangement. one can hardly believe one's eyes. one can hardly believe in fact the disarray of this country which is no longer foundation for freedom, but pathology, ideological terror. so that the apparent depth, history, transforms into dilapidated historiography, fear of reprisal, the cower. the flattening in these instances above touches what's left of the sublime; our waste is our own, our debris local.

For those interested in visiting the show - here are the details:
em/bedded up through June 24th. Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Building C1, Santa Monica, CA, 90406. Take the 10, get off at Cloverfield, take a right on Michigan; Michigan ends at Bergamot, drive into Bergamot, park on the left. Phone 310-264-4678. http://www.track16.com/

The http://www.asondheim.org/airtrack16.mp4 replaces the kite and tent videos. I find it a fairly interesting video in itself.

Meanwhile I'm dealing with bad health and financial issues.

http://www.asondheim.org/4theorists.mp4 which has reversed 'hardening' echo embedded in it - the hollowing out of the world, slow concretion. I thought you might enjoy this. On the other hand it's 20 megs.

Then again if you go to http://www.asondheim.org/graph10.mov and http://www.asondheim.org/graph20.mov - short videos without beginnings or endings, the employment of absolute 'shelves' in relation to surrounding space.

Working with code, flattening, disturbance, imaginary, and have you seen the http://www.asondheim.org/imaginary.mp4 - this is 11 megs, not impossible.

This also relates to the most recent (8 meg I think) video: http://www.asondheim.org/floww.mp4
- an inconceivably ill/ness/defined space - also related to the 4theorists - this work all interlocks - my secret is repetition across amazingly long markov chains...

Too much on my platter. Some references: Paul Celan, Blanchot, Jabes, Shelley, I belong among 'em.

Recent Videos


Dragline machine-dance / breathing / alignment / testimony of the real

http://www.asondheim.org/tentair2.mov

The Pinning of the Imaginary / among signs / convexities

http://www.asondheim.org/imaginary.mp4

The Visitors / image scythe / jectivity / narratologies of the self

http://www.asondheim.org/thevisitors.mp4- this is large, but the basis of narratology.

All of this material stems from Los Angeles, Huntington Beach, Santa Monica, Santa Ana, California.

em/bedded mass - phenomenology of substance

The show em/bedded .

There will be antennas and field telephones. The large room will be all []
There would be a small tent in the large room, possibly, off-kilter,
conncted to a tent in the small room. I'm not sure yet about the Trolley
Car. We want to put video in there, there are places to sit. It's like an
underground. One possibility that would work - just field telephone calls
[] Leslie work opens up into spaces that my work tends to close down. We
share a sense of imminent catastrophe, as well as, to be honest, brilliant
imagery, seductive even in its deadliness. [] In the small room, we will
have memorabilia collections, whatever we can send across. These include
photographs of Iwo Jima from Azure's grandfather (on the ground), a
battle-map of Iwo Jima on site, things [] I want VLF radio somehow present
- I'm not sure about this. I can bring or send the radios out; we can see
what we might pick up around Bergamot, and to save batteries, we might as
well tape the stuff and have it play from a cd player or some such. I want
to possibly erect a signal kite in the central space with an antenna wire
coming down - we might actually be able [] The VLF radio relates to the
'primordial' of life, to actual fundamental particles themselves, to the
resonances of particular spaces. The videos relate to histories, memories,
sexualities, pleasures, absences, presences. The more we have going the
better. We need to check on the []

every one a murderer * original photographs of world war two battleships *
stereograms of world war one trenches and bodies * original photographs of
world war two pacific fighting * stereograms of world war one technology *
world war one will now be abbreviated wwi * world war two will now be
abbreviated wwii * original photographs and other papers taken from wwii
japanese dead * a top secret wwii map of the iwo jima battlefield from the
battlefield * projections of torn avatars over furiously moving dancers *
projections of dismembered avatars over propellers and gratings * nomadic
tent located on the hardened gallery floor full-sized with video within *
one to three half-tents with field telephone/s within (see below) * a
small photograph of a japanese wwii fleet presumably near yokohama *
murmured texts played back from scattered monitors hardly organized or
present in space of every one a murderer

[] MIAOU []

* with the uttermost beauty of human beings there is no rest here and here
in this space * static images of dismembered avatar imaginaries torn into
uncanny beauty and troubling poses * dark spaces of rattling building
vibrations sublated to aural frequencies of the human organism they are
here * dark crackles of very low frequency radio trembling in the presence
of human bodies auroras lightning decay of particles across the cosmos
near and far */set up with antenna in main room perhaps speakers in back
room - but on/off switching absolutely necessary - perhaps VLF radio with
recorded sound/* * i am so ashamed i cried when i saw these images written
large somewhere in the vicinity of wwi and wwii * the 1895 telegraph
receiver mounted in the antique trolley car clacking away and
electronically echoed from sourceless speakers sounds and presence of
ghosts */may or may not be possible depending on cost and consruction
skill/* * the this of this is you and the you in this splayed space *
space of ionizations ionized air recorded space of radium decays * space
of furious nighttime guitars garcia lorca spanish civil war * space of
inscribing of inscriptions of the last inscriptions of soldiers dying and
all memories lost recuperations of names and translations from foreign
tongues * the evanescence of horror in the absence of horror naming horror
in its very absence * every i is murderer every i makes love

The tents in the outer room are half-tents, partially attached to the
framework of the building, partially floating. They are as nomadic as
signifiers, language flushed out of its lair. But the tents are real,
canvas; an air of depression hangs over then, a fog. They are in the midst
of an image storm, a continuous splay, spew, emission, of violence,
sexuality, cloned grotesques, the crackling of radio, electricity. The
work occurs in the far future - mutations, extinctions, broken spaces of
information. The work occurs in the past - organisms huddled as if
protected against the fury of the world, primitive electrical machines
tuned into atmosphere and universe. The distorted bodies are our own of
course, in the present, of course. The work offers no solution - there
isn't any - but presents a distorted beauty of its own. The field
telephones connect the tents in the smaller and larger room. The kite
connects the tent in the outer room to the atmosphere. The tents in the
outer room are splayed, dysfunctional, as if attempting, and failing, to
rise form the ground. The tent in the inner room is home to images, to a
space of looking, watching. The tents are WWII tents, resonant with the
materials in the smaller room, with the video and tent of Leslie Thornton.
Think of the in both rooms as along a sightline, faultline. HELLO HELLO.

[] MIAOU []

fast gals and colors


http://www.asondheim.org/spedd.mp4
http://www.asondheim.org/col.mp4

sondheim's screens mumble earth's horizons breathlessly pretending
depth and authenticity

nauman's sky really takes off except for certain disturbances
in the general flattening

some final images from the last day visiting the gallery - outer room - the show is up through June 24th - thank you all, please visit if you can -

To find out the source of this stream among many, it's damp with them, please check out the Philosophy Text run in the May archive. Reminder is necessary as value undergoes recession. Thank you.

or http://www.asondheim.org/philosophy/ (best)
or text http://www.asondheim.org/philosophy.txt

For those who hate the way I am:
If I were otherwise, I could not produce the work I do.
For those who hate the work I do:
If it were otherwise, I would not be alive.

And for those who hate both:
You are dead to me. You are dead.

dreams yes yes, last night i slept fitfully, woke and realized fans were needed in the gallery, the great bird coasting by, perhaps text would not appear on the monitor if the first chapter were run, silently, as if in evidence of this vital and constant tuning;;;

then

Oceans of Splendour (film)
one speaks the language of technological love, even here, digital and tuning, roiling waves direct from the romantic era backgrounding what is perhaps the only American film, yes, that may be made, at this point in time, in this space, this space of California, this incontrovertible aporia.

Visuddhi Magga

Track 16 Performance Text May 27 06


(Real-time typing/improvisation laptop performance with A/V files. We
had a fine audience.)

ST this is an 'abrupt start' usually i begin outside a gallery context
or in some other context, this is a difficult situation, after all the
gallery's overdetermined i went to the Joan Jonas show today and for the
past few days hope you saw it - by the way the image above is the
Ukrainian revolution - anyway - the show was about memory and display and
masquerade and gender but it was also about $180000, I think that's the
right amount of zeroes, well that doesn' t matter but I'd have liked to
have a copy of the DVD - artists tend to exchange dvds and poetry books
(we're all fucking poor) and here within the institutionalization (love
that word, it's like deterritorialization) of the gallery system we're
barred, so damnit we should go ihn, but the show's closed and then - oh,
the mp3's almost over - and make a bootleg of Jonas anyway if anyone has a
bootleg we'll pay about ten dollars for it that's twice the new york
street price - so - the doctor piece usually comes up later - somehwere
about halfway through the piece - it just appeared early this time, i'm
sorry, i hope it doesn't throw you off - it takes a while, I'm beginning
but just beginning -- to sink into the images - that is, it's cranial -
something will emerge, it might just take a while, please be patient and
if not, well you've waisted only a little bit of time - every so often we
try and _get on the screen _ = make some sort of connection - what this
work is about, this work in general, screen images, that's all you're
seeing here - connected with bodies in displayed or inconceivable
positions - bodies appearing out of nowhere - bodies representative of
empire - of broken desire - of things gone horribly wrong - if you read
the history of the late roman empire - it becomes a history of chains, of
tortures, of factions each intent on ravaging countrysides - it's not true
people can live through anything - agriculture must have been destoryed -
all for foreign wars - these were in - these were in main for the most
part - Iraq - Persia then - toomany resources - what was going onat home -
rome wasn't the ceneter any more - there were lots of emperors doing the
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED bit back then - most of them were killed falling on
their own swords - the Goths came in - other groups - that was about i t-
now - it's about the same thing - different weapons -d own from the analog
to the digital - things coming apart in pieces - inconceivable fucking --
bodies in untoward positions - there's no return - you just can't make
heads like this can you? unless you're at war in which case you can make
them any way you want -
Azure (on the right thank god) is dancing - you can hear her footsteps -
so what - so what you're hearing - what's coming through - is radio -
radio waves - this show is about transmissions - emissions - radiations -
pollutions - so you're listening - that's the radio - the white box - you
can hear very low frequency radio - she's interfering with the planhte'
planet's atmosphere - literally - changing the radio patterning - that's
what you're listening to - this is the sound - all of this - of the field
telephone - in the tent in front of you - connected to Leslie Thornton's
tent in the other room - when the batteries are in it - I shipped the
batteries - they exploded on the way here - i didn't know it - I unpacked
them - my hands were covered with acid, well I thought, we should just
LOOK at them - this is a true story by the way - I don't know if you're
paying attention - oh oh the phone , the tiny phone in the tent, loves
listening to itself, it can finally have a mirror, it can say - this is
what I sound like, LISTEN TO ME! - across the country we looked for places
to record very low frequency radio - you have to be away from
civilizaiton, specificlly the power grid - the electircal grid which
interferes with it - that's what we're doing - going wherever ther's not
that buzz, that interfering buzz - in any case - and in this image - in
this image - there's something taken aparet - there's - a distortion,
tension in the fac e- the face can be pulled apart - whjen you play:
1. war
2. digital
you can pull apart faces. Now I'm not saying that
war = digital = botox
nothing like that - but that all of these - it's like character trates -
this is the conclusion of a silent film which I thought you might enjoy
since th eonly voice here is my own - if yo haven't been in the trolley
car - but first, notice the masts in the water - this is a sunken
lightship off brooklyn - this is an `897 trolley - that's eighteen ninety
seven - trolleys keep following me - they're the subject of this space -
of bergamot - this is being moved - it's an electricla trolley - a book in
the case - actually case two I think maybe not - in the room on the left -
is called Benedict Arnold and is part of the Electrical Series - I think
1858 - not sure of the date - it's next to a very old 1897 or thereabouts
telegraph receiver - these are I think maybe in the same case? as the
spinthariscope which contains radium from 1903 just around when it was
discovered - the thing still works - and in the next cage - older analog
behaviors - there are slides, perhaps you've noticed them? of
tuberculosis, diptheria, plague, I forget the rest - things that rot your
insides out, parasites, dead men walking - I think the slides are harmless
now - I hope so, I've been handling them - they've been leaking - it's
always worth while: DOUBLE YOUR YODEL (this is an aside) (to what?) - here
comes Azure and myself at home - you can see we're losing focus here - but
at least, wow what modelling!!! - the performer on the right - she'll be
out in a moment - she's not performing - she's tuning - the sound - is
from work I've done - somewhere in NY - not NYC - somewhere else - it's
Anja Schmidt - who - I think - can become trance/en-tranced/entranced
quickly - you will have to wait - it's there - there's always smething in
the ditgital domain - iv'e worked with dancers - continue to work with
dancers - first, dance is something I can't do - I'm impossible, I can't
move at all - I'm traumatized - it's like war - it's like Speer walking
round and round the prison after the war - I admire people who can move -
who are free to move - who don't worry about it - who don't think about it
- so I hve these opportunities - it's as if the world were murmuring -
somewhere else beyond slaughter - somewhere into water - that is Maud
dancing below - she gets tired - she repeatss herself - she can't continue
repeating herself - she falls out - falls over - falls into line - falls
out of favor - what fascinates me - in other words - is always,
everywhere, the inconceivable - what possibilities exist beyond
possibilities - what nestings are possible - for example - within the
tents - within the fabric of the tents - outside the realm - of any other
possibilities - outside the realm of slaughter - if I could assassinate -
if I had the courage - I'd put an end to things - but behind every killer
is another killer - I admit freely here - I'm a coward - I'm afraid of
pain - afraid of killing - I wouldn't know how - wouldn't know what I was
doing....
- this is radio radio - this is antennta azure - this is the sound of
atmosphere - this is the fury of wire - and this - moreso - this is Foofwa
d'Imobilite - working the wire - the same wire - it's antenna connected to
vlf to recording device to speaker back into room back into wire vibration
-
so where were we = within the analog realm of the real, nothing but
slaughter: NOTHING but slaughter - within the digital realm of the real -
REAL not VIRTUAL - nothing but REARRANGEMENT - tensor calculus -
inconceivability - it returns to slaughter with a longer loop -
this show is called em/bedded - em/bedded with slaughter, bedded with
slaughter - embedded in Iraq - following the troops of Rome into Persia -
into slaughter - into inconceivable analog torture - EM/bedded - that dash
or hyphen of the typographical - dividing words - leading you on -
crashing against itself - as if there were somewhere to go - there's
nowhere to go - I do hope you like the show - why am I here at this point?
- this is where I'd rather be - THIS is where I'd rather be - by the way
we're NOT in the trolley car now - there are usually two more projections
ther e- if you haven't wandered in - this is somewhere else - what I can
do - while speices are being slaughtered (three to four an hour, the
verdict's not clear) - I can combine things - just as here - as if babies
could do that: think of it - babies can't do that - CAN'T do that - but
dancers CAN do that - and I can't do much of anything - earl
Earl
Earl
Earlier today I saw the Joan Jonas shhow again and - what was amazing, I
thought, she's an artist, it's made to look easy, she's breathing that way
- it's that way so smooth - kind of like Coleridge in fact thought about
Wordsworth but that's another sotry - and then I thought - kind of like
Coleridge - perhaps I should give up art altogether - at least this THIS
kind of art - which makes no money and is CONTRIVED in relation to Joan
Jonas - at least in relation to her =- and is orders of magnitue smaller
than one hundred eighty thousand UNITED STATES DOLLARS - so then, well,
I'd give away the dvds...
that's US on the right, and PREFAB on the left....
AND THANK YOU FOR COMING AND HOPE YOU ENJOY THE REST OF THE SHOW -

Commentary, Visuddhi Magga


"Next, after he has put on his waist cloth as one who hides an abscess,
and tied his waist band as one who ties a bandage on a wound, and robed
himself in his upper robes as one who hides a skeleton, and takes out his
bowl as one who takes out a pan for medicine, when he reaches the vicinity
of the village gate, perhaps the sight of an elephant's carcase, a horse's
carcase, a buffalo's carcase, a human carcase, a snake's carcase, or a
dog's carcase, awaits him, and not only that but he has to suffer his nose
to be assailed by the smell of them." - from Visuddhi Magga, The Path of
Purification, by Buddhaghosa, trans. Nanamoli.

"And thus, bhikkhu, what is enlightenment, what is the cessation of suf-
fering, in the body that suffers, that does not comprehend what it does or
does not suffer, which no longer understands beyond the pain of the wound,
the disease? What is to be done with senescence, with delirium, with decay
within which the name is no longer spoken, the ears no longer hear, the
eyes no longer see, the mind no longer remembers the paths of meditation,
nor does not remember to forget them, nor forget to remember them? And
what, bhikkhu, if I am not in my right mind, if I am subject to such
visions that I am the subject of such visions, if such visions are the
breadth and depth of my world? What is then enlightenment, all but forgot-
ten in the quagmire of nightmare which does not abandon me in the light of
day? What then? What if it is the decay of my body that forms the decay of
my body and the decay of my mind? What if, near death, I am not conscious
of death, not conscious of world and non-world, not conscious of Buddha
and non-Buddha, not conscious of dhamma, what then? For are we not always
of this path of deterioration, of mental incapacity, of sickness unto
death, are we not always of this path of inconceivability, impossibility,
of such illness that the mind no longer speaks, nor thinks, nor imagines,
nor dreams? And what is an exception to this, and what is the norm of
this? And what are the vagaries of fevers, that nothing remains in focus,
that pain cannot be banished from pain, what then? And must we not drive
our body and our mind, but drive them just so far, before the limit and
degree of cessation, before right-mind is lost, before dependent origina-
tion is no longer cause for concern, no longer understood, spoken, in and
out of mind, present and non-present, remembered and forgotten? Do we not
teeter on the edge of the abyss before all is lost, before sickness car-
ries us to the nonsense of meditation, the absurdity of absurdity? Are we
not driven by our own instincts to crawl upon the earth, to swallow it, in
order to remain alive, our mind no longer thinking, no longer ours, yours,
no longer not-ours, not yours? What is enlightenment, what can be done,
when there is nothing to be done, no one to be doing, no thing, no doing,
but not language, memory, meditation, state, paradox, consciousness,
dream, unconsciousness, nothing, not even the annihilation of death, not
even cessation, not even the cessation of cessation, what then? For then
there shall be no speaking, no asking, no remembering, no chanting, no
meditation, no dreaming, no forgetting? And what then? For then there
shall be pain, no pain, and what then? Mind disappears into ignorance,
ignorance disappears. Why, bhikkhu, is there enlightenment at one time and
not another? Why must one be healthy, or unhealthy, or hungry, or of
satiation, or thirsty, or fulfilled? Why must one negate all desires, or
negate none of them? Why enlightenment? Why purity, and why not impurity?
When impurity breeds impurity, when ought is pure? When purity breeds
purity, when ought is impure? Of what use, what concern, bhikkhu? When one
no longer speaks of these things, when one can no longer speak of these
things, when one can no longer speak, when nothing at all, what then?

"There are here in the Victor's Dispensation
"Seekers gone forth from home to homelessness,
"And who although desiring purity
"Have no right knowledge of the sure straight way --"

And what, bhikkhu, given all that I have said and thought, what if there
is no knowledge, no right knowledge, no false knowledge, what of sickness
and unthinking, what of dementia and no rightness, what if there is no
way, what if there is no straightness, if the eye cannot see, the ear
cannot hear, the mind cannot think, cannot unthinking, cannot desire
purity or impurity, cannot desire, what if there is no mindfulness, what
if there is no home? What then, bhikkhu, what then?

PHILOSOPHY TEXT + DELTA ROCKET FILES + HISTORY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY MUSIC




Dedication of Delta III Rocket State at Santa Ana Discovery Science Center; the speaker is the Representative from the area, and the spectators are Boeing employees who worked on the rocket. In the background and next to the rocket is a freeway to Los Angeles. Towards the end of the ceremony, fog machines produced an artificial rocket takeoff, accompanied by a recorded roar.

Then there's

Two files were made with a 1960s 12-chord Oscar Schmidt autoharp. ah.mp3 uses traditional chording and has been somewhat filtered.
ai.mp3 is raw and recognizes the chromatic scale of the instrument as a
potential field for structural manipulation. Structure here consists of:
repetition or partial repetitions:
similar or parallel chromatic bundles
flows of rhythmic sub-structures and rhythmic accents
timbre sequences
arpeggios.
The result is an uncanny tour-de-force concentrated on the history of
post-classical music in the past century.

http://www.asondheim.org/ah.mp3
http://www.asondheim.org/ai.mp3

http://www.asondheim.org/delta.mpg short video of Delta 3 presentation in
an all-American presentation of:
balloons
flags
freeway, cars, and trucks
big rocket

http://www.asondheim.org/philosophy - this format and presentation has
been created by Dirk Vekemans and is the best way I know to present the
text online (thank you!).

These are from very low frequency (VLF) radio reception under various grounding, filtering, and antenna conditions; in a sense they are steady-state; one impetus for the philosophy text (below) has been the nature of spherics - digitalized events which are deeply random, at times accompanied by 'wave-trains' or envelopes that are tightly structured. So an event once started may progress in a limited variety of ways; on the other hand, there are anomalies, disturbances which appear as emblems, neologisms, new vocabulary and classification; the danger is again the capitalization emblem = Emblem, as if there were more than structure; as if something or someone = Someone were speaking; as if Someone were speaking to us; as if Someone were speaking to US; as if Speaking itself is a matter of reification, primordial. But these are 'flat' signals; "that's all they are" - nothing more - that should be - is - sufficient -

http://www.asondheim.org/ggg1.mp3
http://www.asondheim.org/ggg2.mp3
http://www.asondheim.org/ggg3.mp3
http://www.asondheim.org/ggg4/mp3