The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

what remains


because of the faces and powers among our second lives
and third and others in-between the others; because of
swollen faces thinned back to pages bones and shadowed flesh
that nothing stays what was simple and illusion

and then poetics rounds and fills the world
among lost pages and inscriptions freed
from every symbol and symbols freed and world;
the less are said the farther truth transcends

because of truths and songs and lights and place
where bodies turn; because of bodies churned and stretched
among beams of those lights and those songs; those truths
nothing stays back nothing; valleys fill with jostled things

and things churn symbols; the world
fills silence; skies get dark kiss; welkin


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

song singer azure carter
words video alan sondheim

beacon, cb

the earlier crystal radio files have been taken off.

the first file below is from crystal radio with a cb radio transmitted
coupled to it (the transmitter antenna rod placed near at right-angles
to the loose coupling coils). the recording was (as with the other files)
through a sony minidisk connected directly to the crystal radio output.
sounds are breathing through the cb, turning it on and off, etc.

the following two files are highly modified, direct from crystal through
minidisk; if you listen carefully you can hear a low-frequency beacon at
one point.

with all three files, the variometer is used for fine tuning (in series
with the loose coupler primary; the other end connects to ground).

why are these of interest? for me, it's the mystery and wonder of coil
couplings against power grids and human transmissions. and then what
happens!

http://www.asondheim.org/brea.mp3
http://www.asondheim.org/beaconhissminus.mp3
http://www.asondheim.org/beaconhisshalfminus.mp3