I've been posting 'immortality texts' for a while now - they're going to
be presented against a video background/foreground with Azure, Foofwa and
of course myself in it. I've attached the texts but I'm not sure they'll
go through. There's also the HASTAC text - I'm using part of it, somewhat
modified.
Thanks for asking, Alan
On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, Johannes Birringer wrote:
Hi Alan,
you are going to address immortality at Subtle Technologies?
Wish i could be there. Want to share your thoughts with us here, like the
other time?
I am not directly interested in immortality, but was just this morning reading
a small review on a new opera being shown in London,
dealing with Walt Disney (" a man or a company"), and the myth or legend about
his wanting to be cryogenically frozen in the hope that one
day he (his company?) might be brought back to life.....
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/may/31/perfect-american-eno-phelim-mcdermott)
Apparently Andy Warhol (as a character) strolls into the scene, at one point,
too.
What an assemblage of perfect americans.
best wishes
Johannes Birringer
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What I've been doing -
New ESP-Disk vinyl and cd forthcoming!
We've been busy recording and mastering; the recording was made
at GodelStrings on Saturday, the mastering on laptops.
The lineup and instrumentation -
Azure Carter, lots of songs!
Chris Diasparra, baritone and tenor saxes!
Ed Schneider, alto sax, a bit of singing!
Alan Sondheim, long-necked saz, cura, cura cumbus, electric saz,
viola, violin, tro, oud, classical guitar, parlor guitar, dan
moi, kouxian, ukulele, sarangi, suroz, ghichek, pipa, sung lisu,
flute, chromatic harmonica, Cm harmonic harmonica!
(I wanted to see what the transitions would be like, from one
instrument or mode of playing to another; I also wanted to try
using an extreme number of instruments during the course of a
9-hour recording session.)
The sound recording is amazing - I really recommend this studio.
-- Also, working on a series of texts on IMMORTALITY for the
upcoming Subtle Technologies gathering/conference in Toronto
this weekend, yay!
-- And query - just found a Korean gayageum at a thrift store;
it's quite old and needs some work - if you know anything about
stringing it please get in touch! Thanks -
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If
If Auschwitz hadn't happened, if September were another,
I'd say that you were mine, I'd say we'd stay together,
In any darkness, weather; if Beirut were filled with flowers,
Jerusalem a town, I'd say we'd live forever, I'd say we'd be together;
If Afghanistan were peaceful, if America were other,
I'd say we're made for one another, I'd say eternity;
If Rwanda never happened, Sudan were prosperous,
I'd say we'd love forever, I'd say a god was there, so glorious in us;
If Israel were milk, and Palestine of honey, and China were so sweet,
We'd lie together there, I'd say you were the rose,
All among the fairest; if one voice hadn't happened,
Another took its place, I'd say your name forever,
And we would live forever; if September were another,
A day of bright fall weather, if Auschwitz hadn't happened,
In any darkness, weather, I'd say that we were peaceful,
I'd say eternity, if animals still roamed free, if there were animals,
I'd say a god was there, so glorious in us, all among the fairest;
If one voice hadn't happened, another took its place.
The same old story the only story
Going to look for you and if the same story is always the same
story it's almost always a banana or woman or a woman or woman and
a man in a bath and somewhere there are roads and grandpa and
somewhere there is a bed that is on page or the bed is made and
somewhere there is rain and there's a storm and the storm is
coming down somewhere man or woman is missing and you are looking
around for the missing Manterola and then you say nothing you hear
nothing and there's a sense of despair because this is the 21st
century there is a sense of despair because there is a 22nd
century coming ahead and being behind us there is a 23rd century
and you're looking around and it is still the same old story the
same old story the same old story the same old story is still the
same old story and over ande.
Is it going today I can't see what I'm doing this morning I can
hear the birds chirping somewhere outside looking around and bed
made and you're the best in chemistry down the hall outside in
front of the playground when you're crossing the gravel rock
beneath the grudge any looking for people or things around to say
that your grammar becomes an constituted were unsubstantiated and
there's nothing else around except for your words and that's why
this whispers to think nothing of my have sent you still here but
you might've sent to me you still want to talk what you talking to
me what you talking to Linda.
Looking for something different and you can't wait for you and you
wait a minute at least no mans land and go lay in her bed and when
we came fast and it seems it kind of despair when you have to move
and your yourself out and you look around you and you later when
you're talking and you really think of this under Moody and Woglys
about Malo and you saying you have your morning glossy you look
around just in time and you coming or going and see what me and
the way that you can really bring anything like it. It's like
looking for something that before the end of the world can't find
it automatically just beyond what you can find I had to remind you
of your arms only making cage of a certain size around and there's
nothing more to get back on messaging are wondering where you're
coming from and where are there any news clinic is coming in) to
bring it to you shortly to tell you that you're alright but
nothing more to give no time or anything like.
Our WIRED Future
In the future everything will be connected to everything else
and everything Lexus everything else is everything is doing and
everything well or what everything is doing and usually when you
select revver Stumblin bigger Louch and Cassie won't be at the
asked what we think will be known by her and she knows we will
be transparent original return starts everyone else you want to
reach restaurant everyone else everyone will know everyone else
are you Jerry I'll have a limited energy and we will need no
energy and rolling among the stars and everyone talking to you
Charlize will connect critically with our minds and our project
access with the reading we will have no writing and will have
else future everything will be connected to everything else and
everything Lexus everything else and everything I know
everything is doing everything will I want everything is doing
in the future where US mods we will have perfect axis in a
reading will have no writing but we wille where you is.
In the future everything will be connected to everything else
and everything will access everything else and everything will
know what everything is doing and everything will file what
everything is doing. In the future the world will be perfect and
humans will live forever or at least double our meagre lifespan,
cancer will be a thing of the past, we will be known by our
genomes, we will be transparent, everyone will be transparent to
everyone else and everyone will know everyone else perfectly. In
the future we will have unlimited energy and we will need no
energy and we will live among the stars and everyone will have
perfect food. In the future our minds will connect perfectly
with our minds and we will have perfect access and have no
reading. We will have no writing but we will write perfectly. .
In the future everything will be connected to everything else
and everything Lexus everything else is everything is doing and
everything well are what everything is doing and usually where
you select revver Stumblin be Gerlachs and Cassie will be at the
asked what we think we will be known by her genomes we will be
transparent original return starts every one else you want to
reach restaurant everyone else everyone will know everyone else
are you Jereal have a limited energy and we will need no energy
and rolling among the stars and everyone electric talking to you
Charlize will connect critically with our minds and our project
access we have no reading we will have no writing that we were
right on Lake in the future everything will be connected to
everything else and everything Lexus everything else and
everything I know what everything is doing and everything will I
want everything is doing in the future where you is.
Important Updates
I think I am on the other side of my life, after death, and
I am looking back, waiting for important updates.
This is written, letter by letter, after I have died, so
there are no improper times to read it.
I am dead and looking back to the beginning of my life and
pretending I am a very young child writing this, not fully
understanding what I am writing.
I think I have been dead for a very long time and therefore
this language is foreign to you.
Because you are reading this a very long time after I have
died, you cannot understand what I am writing here, and at
best it may be possible for you to sound out the words,
letter by letter, until the next space is reached.
I am dead and am writing this after my death in a
project I consider normal writing, clearing out loose
ends, as opposed to an other writing full of originality
that can only be written, I assume, by someone alive.
Because I am dead I imagine this writing carries traces
of my death but it is not dead writing, and no writing
is dead writing.
I think I am a great distance past the entrance of death
to the other side of my life and I must look back across
this expanse to my being alive, and because of this I
cannot write anything that refuses or annuls this span.
Because I am dead and writing from the other side, I am
dead and this is not writing or rather this may be
writing but written by someone who is still alive and
writing and is therefore not me.
I am dead and I am writing important updates.
the violence of the world.
what i write is denied.
what is constituted by auto-complete structures me.
you are my skeleton and my synaptic breakdowns.
synapses are bridged by your presence.
you make my connections and you rape me.
you fill my holes with junk auto-completions.
what's most trivial, the prion and its violence.
pion - prion - prison or the fabric of the world.
you add names where i want none. you add friends.
friends, you do not know me.
friends, you like or unlike me and i am split in two.
what i think you will never read or write.
what i write is always already cauterized.
you insist on friendship and the violence of
represented skin.
you insist on the hole which keeps you out of trouble
and which troubles me.
you are made of shattered pronouns which skitter
sideways and slaughter me.
you drop names at the sign of the partial signifier.
you fill in my thoughts with your own and my mouth
is stuffed with them and my mouth is stuffed with
you.
you call yourself facebook but you have no face.
you call yourself google but you are not myriad.
you call yourself youtube but you are not torn apart,
you are not raped, your eyes are not gouged out,
you guarantee the seen.
you guarantee the visible.
you guarantee my writing and you guarantee, you swear,
you are only for the good, you only do good, as you
reconstruct the psyche, replacing thought with
cleverness and the tokens of capital.
my denial is part of you and the denial of my writing
becomes my writing and i choke on your shit until it's
transformed into drones, robots, and aphorisms.
you think you're on my side but you're vacated.
my bones are not my bones, my mind is not my mind.
i am aphorism, i am auto-complete: type me in and
something else appears.
that something else is me.
immortal ene
ene, and knows no dream, that is the self, said he, that is the
immortal, the chest and face, in photographic image around
broken space,
smeared in orbital clouds running with a fury,
into smears -
defuge smeared across the chest and face, immortalized in few,
the bottle, the res-bodies, and for whom inscription has
transformed into smears. defuge smeared across the chest and
face, immortalized in photographic image around broken space,
smeared in orbital clouds running with a fury, smear let smear
cull our privacy
into smears. defuge smeared across the chest and face,
immortalized in ftate immortal fhall felfquicken, immortals
(hermits), assume the shape and size of immortality
being is a supernatural or immortal being i.e. fairy, elf,
leprechaun, pictures, colorful hermits and sprites, animals,
pictures, colorful immortals, third stems, alms
am, by being dead, immortal; can ghosts die?
smeared across the chest and face, immortalized in photographic
image; but creatures, ye are not altogether immortal and
indissoluble, but ye Judgment decides whether there shall be
freedom of will, immortality of promise, immortality to those
enclaved lucky few able to afford them, it's a matter of time
before immortality as well is swallowed up; even nor immortality
then. there was no distinguishing sign of night nor of myself a
position I would have thought of, as immortal among the blanking
among the gods. now I will leave the Nikko Hotel, cross the
street to that hated God who made us women as halves of men,
standards of civilization the tiny fraction that is immortal
law. - it is so wonderful, and my dreams are of wondrous beauty.
immortals
immortals! think of way
of not thinking way, immortals!
this way, immortals!
lost in the woods, immortals!
names, immortals! the name
gives the world, immortals!
immortals! as we live by the Muses, it is but a Gratitude in us to
this way out, immortals!
immortals, as an option only, writing and breathing out and
breathing in, O immortal! outside and far too many dreams that
are the self that is the dream, every writer wants immortality,
every writer wants a dream
(hermits) immortals
immortals (hermits)
being n a supernatural or immortal being i.e. fairy, elf,
leprechaunn pictures colorful immortals (hermits) (and) spirits,
animals pictures colorful immortals (hermits) spirits third stem
alms would ensure i immortality. i i t tear m myself a apart r
remorselessly f immortal, is he? he cowers, insignificant event
one with the Death that was not theirs, nor was there aught
immortal, no sign was there, Shatrihar of immortal soul
law, and his diary records Tang's Wu-Tsung's search for
immortality, irds and animals, pictures, colorful immortals,
hermits and spirits pictures colorful immortals (hermits) (and)
spirits, your army will be crowned with immortal victory! he
didn't repeat, and by being dead, immortal; can ghosts die?
the memorial favors immortals' important efforts -
painting draw paint birds animals pictures colorful immortals hermits
into smears. defuge smeared across the chest and face,
immortalized, every good man fhall be able to will at will,
felf-quicken, assumes the shape and size of immortality.
BEDROOM AVATAR immortal space sacred heater language train pet
the face of immortality unveiled - ftate immortal fhall
felfquicken
vinegar teach marks PHILOSOPHY OF VIRTUAL BEDROOM AVATAR
immortal neoism true immortality center rebaptised sawang
brightlight meeting local OF VIRTUAL BEDROOM AVATAR immortal
space sacred heater language train immortal sacred heater train
pet rudding odors sweat vaginal semen ova screen, Rub Dub, Ring
around rosie poses, then aught immortal: sign youngsters'
Betty-Page position of thought, among my honey, dry promise
immortality to those enclaved lucky few able to afford anything.
it's just a matter of time before immortality as well is
swallowed up; even VIRTUAL BEDROOM immortal sacred heater train
pet rudding sweat youthful inhalations, out in, immortal! and
outside until passed, pictures, colorful immortals, hermits,
spirits, pigeon piece carcases sun immortal hand or I could
frame by fearful symmetry in what distant tiger Tiger burning
bright in the parts of the night what immortal into smears, and
defuge smeared across the chest and face, immortalized in
every good man and woman fhall be able to will at will,
felf-quicken, Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal:
no sign was there ...
My Immortality
They can make me live forever. They can record everything I do.
They can take cell samples and reproduce me, clone me.
They can ask everyone about me and reproduce, reinvent, from it.
They can kill everyone else including themselves and I will
survive as far as anyone knows.
They can freeze part of me until a later date and burn off the
rest.
They can create an enclave where everything is perfect.
They can harness my body to prevent accidents and insert me in
a germ-free environment.
They can take my DNA and reproduce everything but mind.
They can turn me into a machine.
They can download me into a machine, one quantum-mechanical
system into another.
They can gene-splice and stem-cell my body.
They can transport my body into the perfection of outer space.
They can eliminate my enemies.
They can eliminate those who are in need of me.
They can pay others to medicate and protect me.
They can sever my brain from the rest of me and attach the
appropriate inputs and outputs.
They can keep me alive in a virtual reality guaranteed to
run forever with the appropriate technological updating.
They can practice and preserve alchemy upon me.
They can feed and nourish me through tubes and wires
sterilized and perfected with the appropriate grapheme
machinery.
They can freeze me and send me far towards distant galaxies
at nearly the speed of light, towards worlds we have never
dreamed of.
They can recreate me in novels and documents that constitutes
every thought and action I have ever performed or ever will
perform.
They can reproduce me in a group of children created from me,
with or without partners, that, themselves, will result in
another group of children, and so forth.
The can create the clean and proper body, the pure body, the
body absolved, the body that will live for ever, the armored
body.
They can withdraw from all creation, leaving me to the riches
and resources of this and every other planet, alone in a vast
and depopulated world, and hence a perfect world with perfect
nourishment and life support.
They can apply all the resources of the planet earth to
guarantee my survival.
They can sell the corporate faith in an increasing and perfect
future, for my support.
They can eliminate all disease and all discomfort from the
world.
They can eliminate all forms of aggression in the world,
especially those forms which are directed against me.
They can eliminate all pollutions and radiations from the
world, and eliminate all potentials for natural catastrophic
incursions of geography into my vicinity.
They can eliminate all internal and external harm towards me.
They can transform me into amoeba or rotifera or bacteria or
other protean forms that will keep me alive until the end
of time or the end of measurement of time.
They can reproduce me as infinite within another multiverse
where I will live unheeding and unheeded, unimpaired, and
unimpairing.
They can create perfect biological copies of my body and mind
without disease or aging that will carry on where my body
and mind will have left off.
They will reconstitute me from the fabric of history, space,
and time themselves in a rebirth I will not have foreseen.
They will reproduce me continuously from my holographic
history at the event horizon of the universe.
They will insist on my survival and insist on my existence,
in spite of, or in reaction to, any evidence to the contrary.
They will call all of the above immortality, or my immortality,
or my personal survival into the infinity of space and time.
They will record me in detail.
They will be me, they will die.
The Worry.
7c7
< They can kill everyone else including themselves and I will
---
> They can kill everone else including themselves and I will
21c21
< They can eliminate those who are in need of me.
---
> They can elininate those who are in need of me.
26c26
< run forever with the appropriate technological updating.
---
> run forever with the appropriate techological updating.
29c29
< sterilized and perfected with the appropriate grapheme
---
> sterilized and perfected with the appropriate nanocarbon
34c34
< They can recreate me in novels and documents that constitutes
---
> They can recreate me in novles and documents that constitutes
59c59
< They can transform me into amoeba or rotifera or bacteria or
---
> They can trasform me into amoeba or rotifera or bacteria or
68c68
< They will reconstitute me from the fabric of history, space,
---
> They will reconstitute me from the fabric of histroy, space,
E.D. --
And life hath immortality --
Of immortality --
Unfair an immortality --
Of immortality --
For immortality --
Beguiled of immortality, --
Termed immortality --
And Immortality --
If Immortality unveil --
Is Immortality --
In that immortal copy --
And life hath immortality --
Taste thine immortal wine! --
And Immortality --
Behind this mortal bone --
To the immortal tune, --
Immortal Alps look down, --
What if I file this mortal off, --
Of immortality --
Unfair an immortality --
Upon the mortal side --
Termed mortality! --
Could mortal lip divine --
If Immortality unveil --
Is Immortality --
Of our immortal mind, --
Of immortality --
Conquers mortality --
For immortality --
That we've immortal place, --
To him whose mortal light, --
Beguiled of immortality, --
Immortal is an ample word --
Termed immortality --
live forever.
I wish I could live forever.
I wish I could live forever.
me and I mean forever and we'll live forever. But Veronica says, Vladimir,
You and I will live forever
Oh, "said Jennifer, we do will live forever, our bodies do such twisting
any sex. Listen: We can live forever. We can lift mountains, fly. We can
What is _thick_ seems to live forever; it creates (just like the coun-
there is always that curlicue live forever, and we have inherited that
there is always that curlicue live forever, and we have inherited that
live forever and be HAPPY, because I always want
live forever, and we have inherited that curlicue from the structure of
her face and we'll fuck and live forever I promise, she'll never leave me
"that class," as my grade school teacher said, implying we'd live forever
of the body's sickness::: genetic acid redux; Aspirin to live forever;
of the body's sickness::: genetic acid redux; Aspirin to live forever;
because people can't live forever, says azure.
there any decent reason not to live forever providing ::
there any decent reason not to live forever providing ::
ment slowed down like the omega-point, oh, we'd live forever. Up through
ment slowed down like the omega-point, oh, we'd live forever. Up through
forms of flora and fauna. Azure and I pray that she will live forever.
i'll live forever if you but shiver silver.
If live forever in the future will grow old?
probably live forever.
I'll live forever. You can read anywhere across the nipples; there's a lot
I'll live forever. You can read anywhere across the tits, lots of space.
to live forever... Hopefully thi, like anything ele,
worlds scrolls frames frameworks ideal models both if were live forever
would be happy, I would be out of here: I would live forever! I'd really
why can't i live forever?
be messiah. i will live forever if i choose to live forever. i will do
this chaste image as if i would live forever and ever, i won't live
I will live forever
I will live forever
I will live forever
I will live forever
digital bodies live forever and i don't mean on television
digital bodies live forever and i don't mean on television
(jennifer) i'll live forever if you but shiver silver.
4.If you live forever in the future will you grow old?
humans will live forever or at least double our meagre lifespan,
of the madness of the body::: genetic acid redux; Aspirin to live forever;
of the madness of the body::: genetic acid redux; Aspirin to live forever;
of the madness of the body::: genetic acid redux; Aspirin to live forever;
They can make me live forever. They can record everything I do.
it contains my soul and i will live forever
your mouth on mine! We will spawn child processes! We will live forever
yea, though one live forever, one is increasingly alone. Soon, the
and our president will live forever and no one will have to vote again
no theoretic reason why an individual could not live forever. Given enough
could a robot be your friend? if you live forever loud? could a male be
we will say hello hello hello, we will live forever
we will say hello hello hello, we will live forever
we will say hello, we are very tiny and we will live forever
we will say hello, we are very tiny and we will live forever
tos perceives structures to live forever... Hopefully thi, like
terrible shame that we do not live forever to see how Now comes out Then
kills the thing it loves. I want to live forever. I want non-acts of
Now I think I will live forever because you will take my deep words to
I want to live forever, rather than I want to die.
redux; Aspirin to live forever; :saprophytes... some things will
"Jerusalem a town, I'd say we'd live forever, I'd say we'd be together;
"Jerusalem a town, I'd say we'd live forever, I'd say we'd be together;
eternal space where avatars live forever, but disappear, and who is to
eternal space where avatars live forever, but disappear, and who is to
and i will live forever
"our love will live forever past the stars"
save the world, salvage the poor, live forever, run naked in the streets,
"And we would live forever; if September were another,
"And we would live forever; if September were another,
If I write forever, will I live forever, in the written held against
If I write forever, will I live forever, in the written held against
your heart you will live forever in capital flow
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