Thanks, Alan. The text was generated using an order 4 Graeco-Latin Square, with the sets (lose, gain, nurture, sustain) and (friendship, history, grief, ecology). That's just scaffolding, though, and I can't really explain the process except to say it mixed intuitive responses to the combinatorial terms with combing through my notebooks for relevant ideas.
cheers, -- Paul On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 6:56 AM Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour < netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > 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>* > *=====================================================* > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ----- |(*,+,#,=)(#,=,*,+)(=,#,+,*)(+,*,=,#)| --- http://paulhertz.net/
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