Surge no-purpose music
http://www.alansondheim.org/SUCH5.png http://www.alansondheim.org/SUCH.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/SUCH1.png http://www.alansondheim.org/SUCH2.png http://www.alansondheim.org/SUCH3.png http://www.alansondheim.org/SUCH4.png [:] there's nothing useful [:] there's nothing that can be used for anything [:] you can start off here with earth [:] then there are form and limitations and you can write Earth and not earth [:] you can write earth [:] when you write earth, then there are things of forms and limits and there are many of them [:] when there are many of them, they have organs [:] they have blood and they make sea and land [:] they make flesh and bone and they make energy [:] they use energy to make energy [:] limitations collapse into perfect compression [:] compression is the beginning of atom [:] compression is the beginning of world [:] world forgets time and space [:] there is no purpose and no purpose is the bone of time and space [:] no purpose is the making of time and space [:] there is no other making [:] one begins and ends with origins [:] origins are beginnings and endings [:] listen to origins and observe beginnings and endings [:] nothing can be performed [:] nothing can be made to start and transform into action [:] action is never a performance [:] to perform is to stand still [:] to perform is to die [:] act without purpose without limitations [:] act without beginnings and ends [:] act without formation of Earth and earth [:] to act SUCH is to act [:] to act is to transform into space and into time [:] to transform into space and into time is to SURGE [:] to SURGE is SUCH [:] to SURGE [:] SURGE is music [:] SURGE is musical art and the art of music [:] MUSIC is present only when it is absent [:] when it is absent there is space and time [:] when it is absent SPACE and TIME disappear [:] without demarcation, without the MARK [:] SPACE and TIME are non-existent [:] one becomes space and time [:] one becomes unmarked [:] UNMARKED one is transformed [:] into pure ONTOLOGY [:] when one is transformed [:] into PURE ONTOLOGY [:] then music begins [:] when there is a listener there is no MUSIC [:] when there is a player there is no MUSIC [:] MUSIC played is not MUSIC [:] one one is present, there is no MUSIC [:] when there is ONE there is NOTHING [:] when there is NOTHING there is neither space nor time [:] MUSIC is ABSENCE [:] EXISTENCE is ABSENCE [:] NON-EXISTENCE is MUSIC [:] nothing is SORTED-OUT [:] there is no SORTING because there is no DEMARCATION and there is no MARKER [:] [:] [:] __________________________________________ see The Bamboo Texts of Guodian II, Thicket of Sayings I, Cornell, trans. Scott Cook _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour