Holyoke, MA September 14, 2013 (part one)

One Day
Toshimaru Nakamura/English (Joe Foster/Bonnie Jones)
erstwhile 063, 2008

The Color Of / English & Toshimaru Nakamura

Where is my mind?

An abandoned oil rig stands in for the garden of Eden. A garden is a walled space with vegetation. It contains encrypted knowledge of good and evil. 777 terabytes of data contained in a single gram of DNA. Wiping a tear off your cheek. Salty. 

The ocean is grey. Makes you feel like there's something wrong with it. What's the word?
'Contaminated'
Mandate Tonic,
Dance Titan Om,
An albatross has swallowed an Evian bottle.
When 2 become 1. 

Like all people, they contained multitudes. Like all situations, this was several situations at once. sometimes I looked away and ate peanuts and drank Club Mate. Sometimes I thought about what time it was. Then I was on the verge of tears. Then I laughed a lot. 

420 Park Avenue
Drexciya
François Rabelais
Quake 7 Arena
Caiman Nearness
Arcane Sans Mine
Amnesia Scanner

In a taxicraft. Magnetic hover. Tunnels. Plebs light fires and roast stray cats. Taste memory of gnawing on stringy cat meat. Cats are mostly bones and fur. Memories of paper money, also on fire. Memories of diamonds. Rare minerals, tea bowls repaired with gold.
Kintsugi.  Gnu I Kits. King Suit.
Nothing less than a 1000 years old. 

Street view, upper level: 
Gregorian monks in technical fabrics. Robes with mesh and intelligence. UV face tattoos glow in the dark. Yellow contacts, sharp fangs.  
Monks are chanting:
Google Krishna,
Shrinkage Go Lo,
Angels Rig Hook,
Regal Kings Ooh, 

Ice cream melting on his chest.
Yourdicklooksgreatinthoseheels.com
Handguns, rare butterflies. elaborate prison tattoo of a tiger in mid leap. 
Augmented reality contact lenses. 
Red bull energy drink.
Fleshlight. Shell fight.
Septum streched, thicker rings are more beautiful. chain on neck.
Bull ring on nose.
Fake lashes. AFK lashes. 
Nails so long that these hands can no longer grab things. 
Voice control override.
This could be us but you playin'

thunderdome
thunderdome anagrams

We're gonna take everything before we secess. We need more weapons. Hi-speed Wi-Fi provided by drones is a given. Arab money in ciphered currencies. Treasure island. Buccaneers and buried gold.

A stream of more or less violent crimes.
What was violence again? 

Floor 312. We're there. I hand the driver a flake of skin and a fingernail.

The oil rig. A bird flies over. We extend our arm and stand completely still. Bird lands. Bird makes sound. Gently touch bird. It lets that happen. Bird says: ______________ . Identify bird: sparrow. Place filter on sparrow. Mosaic, turbulent displace, hue/saturation. Bird is simplified, jagged edges, orange for now. 

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Text by Jaakko Pallasvuo

Angels Rig Hook contains:
AS DeathCon Valley
AS Titan (ॐ)
AS Creeper
AS Exopsalm
AS Treasure Island
AS Oil Rigged
AS Seagullz

12” Dubplate
A: Angels Rig Hook (14:04)
AA: Engraving 

AS ANGELS RIG HOOK

Crymyselfdrownversion63

This week on the Floating World: Dusty chrome afterworlds. Train stations. Tape segmented and cut according to the arrangements of the celestial bodies. 
Co-produced by Madam Data and Jess Hicks. 
This episode's submissions by:
Alex Smith, Em Downing, Chase Barnes, Jess Hicks, Travis Baka, Kaori Suzuki, Madam Data

Story Text written and recorded by Rodnie King

Episode 2: Chrome Afterworld (feat. Jess Hicks, Rodnie King)

This time on the Floating World: Philadelphia author, musician and visual artist Alex Smith imagines a prismatic, queer, black future amid the rupture of techno, (more) train stations, an encounter with a pothole, radio static and otherwordly birdsong. 

Story / poetry by Alex Smith alexoteric.com (twitter: @alexoteric)
backup story by Ada A. 
sounds submitted by savan depaul, lucy dougherty & jessie h, erika oba, tamar dart, leo suarez, rebecca muczynski, and casey dougherty. 
Mixed, edited and composed by Ada Adhiyatma (twitter & IG: @madamdata)

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Episode 3: before you were that sun (feat. Alex Smith)

For clarinet and electronics triggered by the performer. 
Preformed by Lucy Hatem at the Splice Festival

protract

In episode 4, we wander the streets at night, carrying fantasies of robots, the strange quantum emissions of cars and the floating miasma of radio signals. 

Contributors: 
Erika Oba
John Morrison
Rachel MacDonald
George Korein
Rodnie King
Bennett Kuhn

Episode 4: Jazz for Machines

what we didn’t think and what we left instead

Excerpt "as if from above and through"

Bennett Kuhn's meditative neoclassical project bc_ combines minimalist grand piano with shimmering digital electronic experimentation. Composed in quarantine on Long Island on the 100th birthday of Kuhn's recently deceased grandmother, 'Magnolia II' bubbles with mirthful remembrance and wonder at the unfathomable distance of long life as glimpsed in the beautiful magnolia tree's annual cyclical passage from florescence to decrescendo and silence between. 

'Magnolia II' premiered on www.dreamerswelcome.tv on Easter Monday 2020 through artist and phytophile Michelle Ishikawa's Magnolia Interludes series, which invites musicians to score a 15-minute video of Ishikawa's magnolia tree every day in quarantine. "Magnolia Interlude is a daily music video series created to soothe our eyes and ears by memorializing a moment in the life of our magnolia tree." https://www.okimoto.co/magnolia-interludes

Featuring digital instruments by Madam Data Labs: http://www.madamdata.net/

Dedicated to Nani (1920-2019).

More releases by bc_
bc_ - cdr (2019): https://kuhn.bandcamp.com/album/bc-cdr

Magnolia II (2020)

bc_ - Magnolia II (2020)

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Episode 3: before you were that sun (feat. Alex Smith)

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