Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0402200106500.3946@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: @touch
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 01:07:01 -0500 (EST)
@touch Text from Brown University E-Fest conf. performance - thanks to Talan Memmott, Bob Coover and everyone - @touch @touch radio radio americanempire americanempire yoyu have to imagine this really really loud well it was when we set up but right now it's not so loud this should be almost deafening. this should be about trhe american empire we're playing and singing aboutt rock and rockk you canj hyardly hear this something more meditative wellm, this is a mess already. i was really prepared for this although i'm feeling sick hyonestly this was going tob e the best thing i evert did you would have remembered it and told you friends, wow alan really soared tonight, it was incredible in fact i never saw something so wonderul and instread he did this mess...; he couldn't control antying, look the girl even stopped singing and those other people seem a bit lost, they're just running around.... so what cann i do to salvage this, get rid of the rock maybe music's an easy way out - this is the end of empire, this is the end of empire movie, the last empire movie, the music brings it home, it's all over - i keep thinking that these words should MEAN something, already I notice that something's lost in the translation here is europe in 1915, just before the war, wait a minut, it's coming upyou can see everyone is just waiting for the war to begin they're sure it's coming so they're going honestly to the beach for the last time, they figure they'll go to the beach after the war again, and they honestly hope it will be a short war so they can go soon to the beach where they will swim and froilic this is the swimming and frolicing at the beach scene in three dimensions, it's really the best way to see it (it's almost as if youi could run around them and see them from all sides!!!!) that's the magic of the computer screen, honestly! IT"S DIGITAL POETRY!!!!!!!! wewll, ok.... i want things to happen i want things to happen so fast that you will just look and they will have already happened and you will have been there - that was a bit of sumerian in case you wondered, the dinger mes - moving towards the ultimate giving of rhyme i dreamed of the ocean of 1915, when my father was close to being born or just was born, and this must have been what it was like now we're entering another period, you know that better than i do, when we have to fear the fascists in our own country when that's all we've got left is fear and the hope that the elections won't be mutilated by a coup d'etat this time just before the elections, not even waiting until they're over, i mean the people uselessly voting like in some other 'impoverished' country of our dreams theres a dancer i work with from time to time he's swiss which means he's from switzerland which isn't the same as 'sweden' wlel you may ask what does this have to do with anything in his work he emphasizes the labor of the bodey, which appears - well you cxan think of it this way there are two bodies, there's the virtual body of dance and there's the real body of the dancer and he works with the latter, his peices dangerous and stopping and stopping he tried to do this in new york city what was I saying oh yes, of the national archives in new york city and they were lit by the fires which he tried to put out by his furious dancing under the stars. it was the tao it was the other tao there are two of them that almost do the same thing like a rhyme or a upon that derails the nusery rhyme i can't spell any more honest, i'm feeling sick do yoyu want to see two ballloons on a ceiling? i'm sure you do.... there they are - can you take FOUR minutes of two ballons? one way to think of it is look at ONE Balloon for TWO minutges and the OTHER balloon for TWO minutes or (my favorite!!!!!) forget ONE OF THE BALLOOOSN altogether! well enough of that. the point of this is that this kind of work MATTERS and it carries its own meaning and POLITICS and we should get out and vote and this time if we lose we should fucking take to the street. thank you __