Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.63.0607280935150.4467@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>, WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu
Subject: new performance
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:35:33 -0400 (EDT)
new performance new performance material-mode... litany of nouns, concepts, roiled, returned, quicktime signatures, stopped at will (single mouse stroke to stop and double to continue). then the chant or discourse of the concept - improvisation & all the while the continued turmoil of the videos in motion, the sound bytes, nonetheless an absence of written text, or rather text to be written, the first face of it, the text which generates the speech, speaking text, speaking of the text, on occasion commentary of the visual, or the bridging of the sign between inscription, aural, visual, or among writing, speaking, gesture. where is the material-mode of language in all of this, in the midst of this; where is the groundwork of descent? thus i generate nothing but sound, no appearance, no calisthenics, only the turmoil of the screen, turbulence of sound (for sound emerges else- where, not there, but beyond, or surround, or "to the left of the screen" from which the digital-naked is deployed); thus this speaking is always already at a loss, real-time, given only at the moment, gift only for an audience, a present or presencing audience, for whom speech is entreaty, and not file. thus will be the new performing and first and second degree of creation.