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The Owl and the Moon, blackbird, ruru. 
Day bird, night bird.
Child sings... "Little Birdy Fly Away... To Another Sunny Day..."
The female voice, the moon, lunacy and strange ideas... falling in love with the moon.

Sound sketch whacked together super-quick to go with the words.

anciently I roam
amongst baby stars and quantum foam
mother, black sea, roiling potential
collapsing wave functions, 
forms concur eventual…ly
when we, the two, meet, join… see?
when we
become one
come
one
come
all
come
let's fall
let's fall


Anciently

Sound sketch for the poem...

SACRIFICIAL LAMB
Step by step by ascending step
She lugs her sack of meat and bone
Food for the gods at the apical peak
It's fancy fare, this ape-girl meat.
She’s halfway there
She’s halfway home
Or so it seems
	until a lone
		pied piper's call sounds out familiar
Childlike ego-soul's in thrall,
It's hooked
It's over
"I'll kill ya!" he calls,
"I'll thrill ya!" she hears,
and veers off the side of the staircase
				(rail-less)
					tumbling
						aimless
Gravity yanking her flesh to the floor
				once more
The meat now tenderised
Juicier flesh each time she rises and ascends,
Each step by stumbling step,
To gods or ghosts, who knows?
She’s kept,
	though,
		compulsively lugging
			her sack of meat
			her bag of bones
			her Sisyphus stone
"To the peak!"
Atoning for sins uncommitted,
			she groans
			she grunts
			she sweats
			she weeps
Now tears of sadness, now laughter, now joy
Heroic fool /slash/ cosmic toy.

Sacrificial Lamb

feat. bicycle, theremin, the Coronation of King George, and a certain Dark Lord
ps it gets noisy. you have been warned.

"I thought I saw the Sun at midnight
Dreamed a white night at the witching hour
It came on horseback as I rode my bicycle
Headed east for the King's Court by dark for the dawn."

Part of a "random inputs" creative project - taking random prompts (word, image, sound, name, number, whatevs) and using them to seed a new work of words or music. 

This one was seeded from a random Wikipedia page about Austrian cyclist Thomas Königshofer, started as a narrative poem & morphed into sound shapes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_K%C3%B6nigshofer

The Sun at Midnight aka "Do You Like The Solar System?"

60-second miniature for the Vox Novus 60x60 Death Mix category - www.60x60.com

Part of the random inputs creative project - taking random prompts (word, image, sound, name, number, whatevs) to seed a new work of words or music.

Seeded by a random bible verse:
Matthew 8:2-3
	1.	And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
	2.	And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

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Sample credit: prayer.mp3 - genghis attenborough http://freesound.org/people/genghis%20attenborough/sounds/36229/

Something Incredible aka "La Petite Mort"

Seeded by a random creativity card @ alexanderlozada.com: "Draw yourself as a robot"

Only sound material is my own voice. Recorded into laptop onboard mic.

General themes:
- digital vs analogue, mechanical vs organic, merging & blurring the lines between the two
- mechanised processes, ticking clocks
- lack of self identity of the robot - no name
- robotic malfunctions, spazzes & occasional breakdowns

Part of the random inputs creative project - taking random prompts (word, image, sound, name, number, whatevs) to seed a new work of words or music.

Image by sergiomiranda @deviantart http://sergiomiranda.deviantart.com/art/Music-Robot-123657606

My Name Is Robot

"Mission Control / AGLA"

23andMe

"Long pig": The flesh of a man intended for eating.

Derived from 'puaa oa', a phrase originating in the Marquesan language to euphemistically refer to cannibalism.

The phrase first appeared in Fredrick O’Brien's 1919 travelogue of French Polynesia, "White Shadows in the South Seas".
"Upon it once stood the temple and about it were enacted the rites of mystery, when the priests and elders fed on the 'long pig that speaks,' when the drums beat till dawn and wild dances maddened the blood." (p. 175, ibid.)

Featuring audio from Farmwatch's exposé of pig farm cruelty in New Zealand http://www.farmwatch.org.nz/

Jennifer Spark

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