[@B2B: perf-art] [^^HOME]Poetry for the Dead
The Ambulence Ride
Original written during winter residency 2007/2008. ....(PROBABLY CUT THIS and go directly into it).... ...(enters an olde' man; tips hat and then exits) ...MUSIC OVER: John Cage #74... VOICE OVER: Now at last if i have (for this show )..... MUSIC OVER: John Cage #74... VOICE OVER: Now at last .. if .. i .. have ... (sigh) .. of.... ...(sign flashes inter-mitently)... ... 1 / 1 .... VOICE OVER: two of four. two of four (quickly) two of four.... ...(mumbles, counting slowly, but "randomly")... ...(slightly soto voice; at time *actually* distinct)... ...(avoid mostly Yono's "Number Nine, Number Nine"; if poss)... ...(HORN section over-lays violin section).... VOICE OVER: and i *would* ask each of you to well look aftre my chilren. ...(alternates of pictures of children in war/poverty/etc)... ...(music again dominates).... VOICE OVER: ...(slightly slurringly)... here it is: H-J-N-O ...(v. slight pause)... cage ...(sign again flashes inter-mitently)l.. ... 2 / 2 .... VOICE OVER: five of five... on the ninth. ...(soto voice over; interrupting)... nine ...pauses... ...(v soto)... clears throat (snicks lips slightly)... ...(ie: almost a sub-gutteral voice, with as soft a whisper tonality as possible).... ...(picture of crying WHITE baby).... ...(flash of BORGES LIBRARY photo).... ...(john cage 00:06 - 00:20; looped with "snap" sound of the playback head moving to beg of track )... (repeats about 3 - 5 8? 10? times) ... (clear, distinct voice) and YES ...(cuts the final 's' quite short)... ...(sound intrudes: 1:17 .. then SNAPS to 0:56... 1:21 but then this track jumps less and less volume down as we go thru the 3rd or 5th ? repeat.... ...(almost a deathly whisper)... ...(semi audible, and distinct, but again the dry lip smacking voice as if the dust of ages)... i (smack snick) have ...(sound track is 2:50 and from that silence to the horns again)... been practising..... 3:22 my mouth-sibs mouth sivs.... ...(4:05...)... my clarionette clarioh net clario net... 4:29 (hard stop, fraction of silence).... r. strauss 0:01 (ie, NOT silence)... thru ... 0:12 (ie, NOT the horns)... looped.... fade to black roll credits.... NOT GRIST ..... and YES !!!! i have been praciSin^^g my mouthisbs of my clarionetteee... mouth is (v. soft s) bbbs.. (almost like psst!-less "psst")... clear claire ee eee oh (but v. soto "ooh") this is *imposbbleljoifasodoalskdfjlskdfj" - fin.The Rain of Death
v. v. tired. must sleep. btw: THANK zarquon (or whom- / what- ever) for theie student discount on Sony Vegas; it was tough enough scrounging toe gether the $70 for a legit copy that won't go "poof" after 30 days.... onward... of course: HOW the phot do i get PAID for these things? not that i *really* need money. after all: you only NEED oxygen, the rest is net-gotiatie ible (ibble....). peace to all ... not grist (brechtian??) and DONT LET THEM MAKE US *****************ever* into "JuST news" - bil-line to share.... AMNESTIY isn' t aboput leeting messican over the beruders!!! -- whozzzz beurderanti are they any whey. (mix then the bitter'd milk.... and *(still to janeresiki8n fleurenen-t darpa net me thingks. of theo's where am i to stand on the interperetation of my fiedn'rsiher's ideas T'hat god and world are one "? well... there you go again.... peace to all. franik. -minus 'ego' . . . . ; whey? bolix .. administer tertra cycline i/v 3- [erg ,g'k ,gdu'wg//// ...(rolls to floor)...