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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: meanderings of landscape
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:05:20 -0400 (EDT)
meanderings of landscape landscape displacement remapped bringing natural beauty from the foothills of the rockies into the sterile landscape of second life looped recordings made at roxborough state park, colorado attached to objects and others in second life attached to avatar alan dojoji @who wanders around the abstract and denuded installation @where hir footprints ./echo and resound in many ways one might consider this an antiquated form of conceptualism: map 1 -> map 2 or some such (as if the world were map (were only map (iff and only if the world were map))) but think, now, of the natural beauty of a world murmuring - the transporting of that murmuring into the unnatural - within the unnatural <--> these are random typologies (necessarily so) - s.t. in landmap.mp4 SEE the wandering of Alan Dojoji HEAR the effluent of the murmuring world * and in landmaps 2-7 .mp3, HEAR the effluent * - a NEW aural landscape is created for you by Hir Wandering and many NEW subtlely different aural landscapes radio landscapes & you can imagine them mapped back into the foothills of the rockies gracefully traced, if you so desire, by Alan Dojoji in the hills or against the cliffs or overhanging moss and trees - http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/landmap2.mp3 http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/landmap3.mp3 http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/landmap4.mp3 http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/landmap5.mp3 http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/landmap6.mp3 http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/landmap7.mp3 http://alansondheim.org/landmap.mp4 * bayou, billabong, branch, confluent, confluent stream, streamlet, dejecta, dendritic drainage pattern, discharge, tributary, streaming, exudate, wandering, flooding, meandering, walking, chirping, exudation, feeder, fork, outbound, outflowing, outgoing, outpouring, outward-bound