Blowback (and other mishaps), by Jude Traxler

Preview MIDI Track, June 2014

Blowback (and other mishaps)

A sequence of six 9s occurs in the decimal representation of π, starting at the 762nd decimal place. It has become famous because of the idea that one could memorize the digits of π up to that point, recite them and end with "nine nine nine nine nine nine and so on", which seems to suggest that π is rational. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_nines_in_pi

Pi to the Feynman Point

Recorded Live, in concert at MASS MoCA by Chris Lynch on Sept. 30th, 2017 in B-10, in an opening set for Sameer Gupta.  1 of 3 Tracks. Originally commissioned and composed for Stephan Koplowitz's Mill Town, a site specific,  hour long performance and installation of dance, film, and artifact at the Bates Mill, Lewiston, Maine, completing the season and tenure of Bates Dance Festival director, Laura Faure.  Photo Credit, Jonathan Hsu.

ToddReynolds WalkingOnWalls MASSMoCA 09302017

Until We Met

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Recorded at Traxler Studios (2018)

Partials

Until We Met

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What can I say? I'm a lush
But I'm good at it
What can I say? It's a rush
But I'm sure that it pays to be on time
Lately I don't mind

What else can I say? I'm alone
But I'm good at it
To keep me in a way that I know
I've a bad habit of not saying goodbye
Truly I don't mind

If I say what I need, would I say that I need you to save me? (Save me)

When would I break? What's enough?
When the eyes have it?
What would it take? Make believe all kinds when I'm
Diminished in my mind
Delayed reaction times

If I say what I need, would I say that I need you to save me?
If I stay and I bleed to erase the sting of safety
To betray this disease would I break into what has made me?
Every single time
Almost... never mind

If I say what I need, would I say that I need you to save me?
If I stay and I bleed to erase the sting of safety
To betray this disease would I break into what has made me?
Plastic all the time
Friendly-fire blind

Delayed reaction time

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What Can I Say?

As if it is as up to me as I can say
For me to be of it, of love as clay
If who to him was she to them
Where monsters are instead of men
Belittling our souls this very day

If who was down then what was up
With when as much as one can trust
As if we met who would we be
Without much need for empathy
But by the if we hoped for much dismay

As if it is as up to me as I can say

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Dissent

I, I try
I, I find
I, I try
I, I mind

I won't let this go
I want you to know

I won't let this go (near backflow)
I want you to know (down we go)

I, I try

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Static

MSM Percussion Ensemble - VARÈSE Ionisation

Nothing repeated
never never never
 
The title is a poem by Gregory Abels. 

I showed this piece to Mike Perdue and he wrote this:

This is a sick twisted lava lamp.
Fava beans in a swamp.
Stick stirring     damn

Pi to the Feynman Point

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