That's exactly right. They see into your intentions & their syntax always transposes into the oblatory eucharistic elements that flail out benevolently into the flaring white...

great wisdom poetry alive in these lines and between

@crazycompass Nata, I was also thinking of you when I wrote S.A.D. ... :)

awesome editing, awesome speaking, as always!

Photo by fabulous Billy&Hells
https://www.billyandhells.com

Darkened By Rain

The Call (2010)

sweetheart putrefied (...my all fucking future)

Back Home

The Last Frontier (Radical Music Part One) on Bandcamp: 
https://martinhoogeboom.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-frontier
Martin Hoogeboom: gui-tronics
Taylor Deupree: mastering

Part of The Dissonant Road, ongoing series live and studio improvisations with the sound possibilities (in the broadest sense) of guitar, mixer and sound distorters. 
Painting "The Last Frontier" by Martin Hoogeboom.
A Martin Hoogeboom Project (DS1258/2020)

The Last Frontier

DR0000 0168

https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa/ilaria-boffa-crazy-compass-geography-of-translations

In support of the "Translations" album by @Ilaria_Boffa:  https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa/sets/translations
On @Meticulous-Midgets label: http://stopcran.ru/news/2020-11-20-272

A year ago, we recorded our first joint track with Ilaria (https://soundcloud.com/crazycompass/ilaria-boffa-foreign), and then we agreed that we would do another one later in which each of us will read own poem in native language. Everything coincided. "We translated our voices into exact references and wording. Now, hear." 

CRAZY COMPASS: Padua, Italy - Moscow, Russia (november 2020)
https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/geography-of-translations-ilaria-boffa-crazy-compass

Poem in Italian: Ilaria Boffa @Ilaria_Boffa
Poem in Russian, field recording & photo (poplars & wind): Nata Boundariver @CrazyCompass
Music: Sergey Kobzev @Assembly-of-Honey

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TRADUZIONI (Ilaria Boffa)

Una precisa geografia di pioppi bianchi
frassini e aceri circonda quest’area fluviale.
Narrazione di fruscii, conversazioni rumorose.
Traduzioni. Ciò che sentiamo e il linguaggio
udibile implicano indagini
sui modi di ascolto dell’altro.
In dubbio l’affettività, il riverbero degli oggetti
che scontra soggetti oltre noi.
Dentro quei metri cubi di suolo e aria
il suono prende spazio, costruisce e colpisce.
Neuro-trasforma e impatta la plasticità
delle cose.
Abbiamo tradotto le nostre voci in
riferimenti e formulazioni. Ora, ascoltami.

TRANSLATIONS 

A clear geography of silver poplars
ashes and maples surrounds this fluvial area.
A narrative of rustles, chatting loudly.
Translations. What we hear and the language
that makes it audible imply investigations
on others’ listening modes.
We question affectivity, objects’ reverbs
crashing into beings beyond us.
Inside those cubic metres of soil and air
noise spacialises, builds and hits.
It neuroshapes and impacts the plasticity
of things.
We translated our voices into exact
references and wording. Now, hear.

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ГЕОГРАФИЯ (Nata Boundariver)

На свете так много мест, куда я не смогу попасть.
Попасть бы хотя бы туда, где я есть.
Почти нигде и почти никогда.
Забытое слово я.

GEOGRAPHY 

There are so many places in the world where I cannot get.
Get at least where I am.
Almost nowhere and almost never.
Forgotten word I'm.

full

Geography of Translations (Ilaria Boffa & Crazy Compass)

“Dear Tom”

How’s the retirement, Tom?
Why now so quiet, dear Tom?
You’ve a cozy, small place here
Where a man could disappear
	Is that what you’re doing, Tom?

Do you get visitors,
Or only the odd, lost bird?
Friends are a blessing,
But even friendship’s passing.
	Do you have friends, dear Tom?

Where’re your pictures?
Don’t you have children?
Well, didn’t you marry?
Man, you’re just like a pilgrim!
Searching your life
Through the flowers and barbs,
Searchin’ alone under your very own star!

Did you get lonely?
What did you do then?
Did you have family?
Well, why didn’t you call them?
I’m sure they’d have loved
To hear from their uncle—
A family together
Lends old age a pleasure!

Listen’t’me blather, Tom,
I don’t mean to nag ya’, dear Tom.
The truth’s I admire you
And all that you’ve lived through.
	You’ve lived quite a life, dear old Tom

How did you do it, Tom?
What were you trying to prove?
Seventy years
And six careers
	I can understand why you’re so tired...


From a cop to an actor,
From a ref to a coach,
Have you ever considered
All the lives that you’ve touched?
Don’t be so modest
I speak from experience
An honest man like you makes a difference!

I should be going
It’s nearly past sundown
But I’ll visit again
Next time I am in town
Never you doubt it
I will return soon
As sure as I draw breath
And you lie in this tomb...

I won’t forget you...won’t forget you...won’t forget...

- - -
Music by Corey Ball
Lyrics by August Lysy
Mastered by Spencer Martin

Dear Tom

faltboat

Фёдор Достоевский  /  Fyodor Dostoyevsky  1821 - 1881
New 12 track album release 26th September 2021
See album at this link for definitions of PALIMPSESTS. 
https://peteswinton.bandcamp.com/album/palimpsests...

Palimpsest No.6 - Ode To Fyodor

Please also check out the amazing video S.A.D. by https://soundcloud.com/maria-korporal based on my sonopoem of the same title here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssaa5BmxyIQ 

Always more often a few walk this planet affected by S.A.D. while around us light euphoria for nothing or ill-concealed detachment stand out.
There is a human-environment attunement to hurt. 

Sonopoetry and field recording in Washington 2019 by https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa 
Pic 2019 Potomac river by IB
S.A.D., seasonal affective disorder

The Lucio Battisti's cover 'Nessun Dolore' (No Pain) recorded at George Washington University is performed by the i-Talians band during the NeMLA Conference 'Writing in a Different Language'. Check i-Talians the Band work here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjgTJK0xFoiFzpXvqDmEJTw 

poem S.A.D. by IB

'Before long it will turn up.
The dividing line of the light. 
In this epoch, humans
and environment alike are
disordered. We suffer from
a mutual attunement to hurt.

An affective relationship 
often hidden, that keeps a few
unrest and vigilant.
Our own interdependence 
models the rationale of being 
inseparable.

And so it happens that
natural elements share hints
for they see into your intentions.
Their syntax transposes 
fervour and agony. Unrepentant 
I write mine.'

S.A.D.

Poetry, Field recording and the Human Human

'I use this space to offer an experience of Sonopoetry, the voice of verses combined with field/sound recording and music collaborations.
Writing and composition marked the passage from pre-history to history for human beings. I firmly believe that writing&listening (active care/empathy and full attention to each and every sound from each and every living and non living being) could inform, guide and represent the Posthuman era that I'll call Human Human era -from sapiens sapiens to human human.
The contemporary alliance between the disciplines of Art, Science and Philosophy elicits the conceptualisation of the Posthuman that to me also implies the transition from the Anthropocene to the Age of Art as a driver of thought and vision. I advocate the responsibility to assign a 'more than human' meaning to the Posthuman concept, that's why Human Human, in order to emphasise the human core, the genetic connection to bio and non-bio diversity as per the Biophilia Hypothesis.
Are we listening?'

Born 6 January 1972, Ilaria Boffa is an Italian poet and sound recordist. 
She has published four poetry collections and she is one of the eight authors included in the North East American Association publication ‘Writing in a Different Language’ Vol XL 2018.
Over the last years, she has been experimenting with field recording, blending her spoken word with sound.
Publications:
Beginnings & Other tragedies/Inizi e Altre Tragedie, 2023, book of poems (Eng/Ita)
https://www.valleypressuk.com/shop/p/beginnings-tragedies

About Sounds About Us/Di Suoni e di Noi, 2019, book of poems (Eng/Ita)
http://www.samueleeditore.it/about-sounds-about-us-ilaria-boffa/

Writing in A Different Language, volume XL NeMLA publications (Northeast Modern Language Association), College of New Jersey, 2018
http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/publications/nis/past/volume-xl.html

The Bliss of Hush and Wires/Periferie, 2016, book of poems (Eng/Ita)
http://www.samueleeditore.it/periferie-the-bliss-of-hush-and-wires-ilaria-boffa-2/

S.A.D.

Ilaria Boffa

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