Sanctuary Music 1998
daydreaming w/ Bob Arnold
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521, 2nd Main, 3rd Block, RMV Extension 2nd Stage, Bangalore 560 094
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A N D T H E N E X T D A Y !
We dream of foreign countries, of other times and races of man, placing
them at a distance in history or space; but let some significant event like
the present occur in our midst; and we discover, often, this distance and
this strangeness between us and our nearest neighbors. They are our
Austrias, and Chinas, and South Sea Islands. Our crowded society be-
comes well spaced all at once, clean and handsome to the eye, — a city
of magnificent distances. We discover why it was that we never got beyond
compliments and surfaces with them before; we became aware of as many
versts between us and them as there are between a hermit in the thor-
oughfares of the marketplace. Impassable sea suddenly find their level
between us, or dumb steppes stretch themselves out there. It is the differ-
ence of constitution, of intelligence, and faith, and not streams and
mountains, that make the true and impassable boundaries between in-
dividuals and between states.
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H E N RY D A V I D T H O R E A U
from — "A Plea for Captain John Brown"
Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, Michael C. Heller considers how sound functions in dialogue with a range of sensory and affective modalities, including physical co-presence, textual interference, and spectral haunting. The text investigates sound that is experienced in other parts of the body, altered by cross-wirings of the senses, weaponized by the military, or mediated and changed by cultural practices and memory. Building on recent scholarship in sound studies and affect theory, Heller questions not only how sound propagates acoustically but how sonic presences temper our total experience of the world around us.
University of California Press, 2024
Occasionally the Field of Possibilities
1
Is branch-spined,
a folded-leaf feeder,
a spatial array
of buckeye larvae,
snapdragons pulling
a pollinator-cue,
orange prolegs
telegraphing mirror-
image eyespots,
a macula lutea sun.
2
Is disruptive coloration,
yellow concentric rings
around a single eye,
a fovea centralis
of seed cones & pollen cones,
closely packed juniper seeds,
a Polyphemus moth with
urticating bristles & needles
with fine stomata lines, a nexus
of cone axis & host pine.
3
Is a field of 30,000 ommatidia,
a composite eye
eyeing woodruff & pale persicaria,
ten conspicuous eyespots
bisecting summer & pupation,
the line severing dusk & night,
the night flying hawkmoths,
is tapetal-mirrored,
a reflective tracheal network,
a superpositional glow.
4
Is a coevolved canopy
of wing scale & leaf,
a broadband acoustic cloak
deflecting echo & foe,
wavelengths of powder & light,
a cloud of stacked platelets,
a thin-film percussion,
hair-penciled & interlinear,
sparkling archaic sun moths,
a microlepidopterous register.
5
Is night-active & pupillary,
wing-fringe grazing cornea,
small moth repetitions
in an orbit of sequestration notes,
thick scale vestiture,
glassy, bluegrass-hosted,
rain-impermeable with snow-
veined forewings, a loop
of sequestration notes,
a small moth repetition.
6
Is a current of candles & dawn
half a clockface ago,
a Yablochkovian glow
of carbon-arcing waxwings,
match twigs, linstock boughs,
a sky of combustible fruit
tinders river of ruined craters,
winter on its last legs,
a winter of monthlessness,
winter with plants in the belly.
7
Is a complicity
of ruckus & pinion,
is the pollen grain music
of a microstructure of modified hairs,
light-interfering wings,
sight-singing by structural coloration,
a scalic descent
down a microscopic edifice
of struts & holes, wings close
& the moth composes.
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The Principle of Rapid Peering
Sylvia Legris
New Directions, 2024
Sylvia Legris lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan