Hi, love this (I couldn't watch all of it, skipped around, working on archive stuff now) and wondered how the text was generated - it's beautiful - thanks - Alan
On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 4:22 AM Paul Hertz via NetBehaviour < netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > Prose poem composed for the Fubar2k21 Glitch Festival in Zagreb, performed > online Thursday, October 7, 2021. The numbers refer to a > combinatorial scheme used in generating the text. > > > 00. > Home, home on the screen, > where nullmachines harvest dataflesh. > > Home on the web, where disinfocowboys > brand undead propaganda bots. > > In the breaks and badlands, bodyminds > glitch remix databend hybrid mutant identities. > > > 01. > Can bodyminds unsuture fear? > Crack undead identities, break open fissures? > > In the fissures, some of us land > and others are born. > > Lodge in the rifts to learn othering from others. > > > 02. > My eye is a heart of stone. > > A seed lodged in a crack can split a rock. > > A tree grew from a boulder. > > > 03. > Says: Freedom is service to God. > > Says: Take refuge in the dharma. > > Says: Along the dry creek bed, walk in Beauty. > > > 10. > Grief take root in ashes, in broken lands. > > Grief split open scars, grow > down to bedrock bone. > > Grief chain the past, grief choke the future. > > > 11. > Bearing invisible gifts, I thank the earth. > > In the sacred grove, we seek the oldest tree. > > You might be standing right beside it, > but you wouldn’t see it. > > > 12. > What joy rages through me to be alive! > > Hungry and curious, life seeks life. > > Life makes matter matter. > > > 13. > Disarm unbind crack scrap > retool the machine of language. > > The dataflesh harvest > drives disparities of wealth. > > Bodyminds we are and we > will not be branded dataflesh. > > > 20. > The young see visions > and the old dream dreams. > > Dream with me: we travel for hours > through inhabited wilderness. > > Clouds of subtle lightning bridged by > filaments of grace attend our passage. > > > 21. > When we were happy, we were so happy. > > Now we are dust to the bone. > > Through obstacles and errors, > the kindred body learns. > > > 22. > Who goes among you and asks, > will you be my people? > > To emerge into the realm of choice, > we must endure the agony of vision. > > What we choose then, will mark > the world for all time. > > > 23. > Resolute and vulnerable, I speak the truth. > > Two fingers laid side by side, > sign of equanimity or love. > > What dream or vision > could sway the world to rebirth? > > > 30. > A blind woman threads the valley, > walking as if without thought. > > Says to us: To bring you light > I have returned from nightmare. > > Says: Call upon my vision and renew the world. > > > 31. > Hear the flute that sighs in old bones. > > Hear the drum that booms in young bellies. > > Do you not hear the still, small voice > encoded in the whirlwind? > > > 32. > Our meat and bread consume us, > hunger devouring hunger. > > Are you the angry hand, the monster > that swallows the sea and everything in it? > > Or the patient seed that splits > the rock and renews the land? > > > 33. > I have forgotten my sorrow, > my future, my name. > > The glacier cut a notch in the mountain; > the rain carved a canyon. > > Learn to be quiet watching the river for trout. > > > > The raw livestream can be accessed here: https://youtu.be/1vm9yeSTaoM. It > was beset with technical problems, explained in the description. Consider > it a work in progress. I hope to do it again, either as a video or again as > a performance. > > -- > ----- |(*,+,#,=)(#,=,*,+)(=,#,+,*)(+,*,=,#)| --- > http://paulhertz.net/ > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- *=====================================================* *directory http://www.alansondheim.org <http://www.alansondheim.org> tel 347-383-8552**email sondheim ut panix.com <http://panix.com>, sondheim ut gmail.com <http://gmail.com>* *=====================================================*
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