transformer http://www.alansondheim.org/bctrip1219.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/transformer.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/bctrip1221.jpg I approached the transformer power station in Copperton, Utah, the ground shimmering beneath me, the ground which almost always appears inert, obdurate, carrying nothing. This is the world, I thought, this hardness of earth, the distant mine tailings blown off the mountain in the distance. This is it, non-discernible. I approached the transformer, a loud sixty-cycle hum signaling chthonic depths of interference with very low frequency radio from the earth's antipodes, the sun, the blown-out cosmos themselves. Then there were the fans. There were the fans in the heat. The sun would melt the world. Nothing was moving but the fans. The fans were transporting. There, the air moved. There, drawn- off electricity kept itself a few degrees cooler, signaling motion. There was motion. The fans were motion in the world. The obdurate twisted around itself, entangled. Time slowed, the world moved or didn't move. In the half-light of quantum mechanics, the harshness of the real and the real's organisms manifested itself. I cannot describe the _surge_ this produced in me, the shifting ground _shuddering_ and _halting_ in the blades' entanglements. -- Culled commentary: The skin. The power supply blew off, hot transformers shuddering into Clara's radios' themselves (capacitors and resistors). The electrical odor that indicates the fury of distant fires comes from Times Square, New York City, USA, and the tubes and transformers are rheostats, circuit breakers, transformers, and motors; only the light-bulb melissa cindy c or die hard sam knew last summer's gail gone wild. Refrigerators, dishwashers, pole transformers, computers, garage doors write a lot energy carried from one winding of a transformer to another, encountering more and more windings, entanglements. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
