the captain
the beating of the great heart, the captain says,
it's the great heart of the soul, it's always there,
it makes your machine talk, it becomes you,
when you enter the great heart, your machine sings,
as if everything in the world were moving flesh,
the captain says, flesh coming into your own
for your home is not your home, and your life is ours,
and we live in the midst of the great beating heart,
and nothing happens for sure, the captain says,
until you come around, until you come down into it
and you become the great beating heart, hums your great machine,
and your moving flesh come into ours, the captain says,
our own is yours, your own is ours, until you come down into it
oh so many words, so much murmuring, when you come down into it,
your own, our beating heart, our moving flesh is yours
http://www.alansondheim.org/capt.mov
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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:08:47
From: "Craig Aaron, FreePress.net" <info@freepress.net>
To: sondheim@panix.com
Subject: Google Won't Save the Internet
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Dear Friend,
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innovators to leading members of Congress weighing in against the dangerous
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is my heart beating here
[ Please note - you can now see the Mt. Tremper performance (and many
others) at foofwa.com on the opening page; additional files are under
Production > Live or Video. For this reason, I've taken the file down
at http://www.alansondheim.com because of space limitations. ]
New work for performance upcoming Saturday in Odyssey:
http://www.alansondheim.org/spedmeat.mov
Text:
is my heart beating here
or are your pixels refreshed in faux motion
do you believe everything i say here
and am i saying anything
would you like to take my hand
i have nothing to give
would you like to bear my child
or become my child processes
would i murmur and caress you
would you be my parent process
oh everyone has a number
and every number has a one
when you see meat it is not meat
when you don't see meat it is meat
my invisible flesh
my visible flesh is not your meantime
is your heart beating there
or do your muscles murmur true
and in murmuring truth
do they murmur in true motion
are questions always questions
are there answers to no-questions
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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:45:04
From: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory <info@jpl.nasa.gov>
To: "sondheim@panix.com" <sondheim@panix.com>
Subject: NASA Video Shows Global Reach of Pollution from Fires
JPL/NASA News
Feature
August 11, 2010
NASA Video Shows Global Reach of Pollution from Fires
The full version of this story with accompanying images is at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-265&cid=release_2010-265
A series of large wildfires burning across western and central Russia,
eastern Siberia and western Canada has created a noxious soup of air
pollution that is affecting life far beyond national borders. Among the
pollutants created by wildfires is carbon monoxide, a gas that can pose a
variety of health risks at ground level. Carbon monoxide is also an
ingredient in the production of ground-level ozone, which causes numerous
respiratory problems. As the carbon monoxide from these wildfires is lofted
into the atmosphere, it becomes caught in the lower bounds of the
mid-latitude jet stream, which swiftly transports it around the globe.
Two movies were created using continuously updated data from the "Eyes on
the Earth 3-D" feature on NASA's global climate change website
http://climate.nasa.gov/ . They show three-day running averages of daily
measurements of carbon monoxide present at an altitude of 5.5 kilometers
(18,000) feet, along with its global transport. The data are from the
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft.
AIRS is most sensitive to carbon monoxide at this altitude, which is a
region conducive to long-range transport of the smoke. The abundance of
carbon monoxide is shown in parts per billion, with the highest
concentrations shown in yellows and reds.
The first movie, centered over Moscow, highlights the series of wildfires
that continue to burn across Russia. It covers the period between July 18
and Aug. 10, 2010.
The second movie is centered over the North Pole and covers the period from
July 16 to Aug. 10, 2010. From this vantage point, the long-range transport
of pollutants is more easily visible.
AIRS is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., under
contract to NASA. JPL is a division of the California Institute of
Technology in Pasadena.
More information about AIRS can be found at http://airs.jpl.nasa.gov .
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is my heart beating here ii
rehearsal materials for Odyssey performance Saturday
full text below; rehearsal with Sandy Baldwin in vale.mov
(we won't be taping the performance; below is a good representation)
http://www.alansondheim.org/vale.mov
is my heart beating here
or are your pixels refreshed in faux motion
do you believe everything i say here
and am i saying anything
would you like to take my hand
i have nothing to give
would you like to bear my child
or become my child processes
would i murmur and caress you
would you be my parent process
oh everyone has a number
and every number has a one
when you see meat it is not meat
when you don't see meat it is meat
my invisible flesh
my visible flesh is not your meantime
is your heart beating there
or do your muscles murmur true
and in murmuring truth
do they murmur in true motion
are questions always questions
are there answers to no-questions
meat is returned always otherwise
what falls off-world is history
what is history, what is forgotten
cannot be stored, leaves no traces
think of residue which doesn't move
in masquerade, it appears otherwise
otherwise than being is the virtual
being virtual is always already otherwise
we are always within the virtual
we are always otherwise
but we move in the life and here we do not move
but we seem otherwise moving, and not appearing unmoving
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