Name: It Burns Me Up! by Tony Brewer Audio
Duration: 20 min 55 s
Description: "It Burns Me Up!" written by Ray Bradbury, adapted for audio by David Ossman, directed and produced by Tony Brewer, performed live at The Bishop, Bloomington IN, 16 Dec 2015.

This morning a sequence of phrases, dream voices and images accompanied by a musical theme haunted my waking moments. I've attempted to transpose it directly into sound as quickly as I could. 
"crossing the bridge of many shapes. we will meet again when they months grow longer. discussions going on for many weeks. "the Hindu and the Muslim boys carry baskets of corn. any basic coverage is universal. the girl child leads and elephant, her hand held by the elephant's trunk, her other hand five roses. there is a kind of sheep with cobalt stripes. the mango pit, once peeled, turns out to be an almond.

The Bridge Of Many Shapes

The Crystal Cabinet (after Blake)

Teacher, university professor, molecular biologist and molecular geneticist Reham Ishneiwra, said to be one of the brightest and most versatile scientific minds in all of Gaza, was reportedly killed either in November or last June already not before she had developed a revolutionary method for purifying seawater for her people in Gaza. It was called Operation Magic Stone. https://rehamishneiwra.com/  
As time goes on and with so many people have been lost in the disaster, I am forced back to my own notebooks where I jot down names and events registered by others in the course of my research. That it might go untold that there were many women scientists and students killed in the genocide as well as artists and journalist seems evident and yet there is another realm of memory open to us who hear the voice of the waters. Operation Magic Stone spoke to me and I knew that eventually there would be a poem or something like this. 

Operation Magic Stone

Abiding with the eternal ethereal childhood of Zakir Hussain drifting through eventual smoke to the cyclical stardust samadhi non-sense words spoken in both consumate grief and great joy to and for those who are able to celebrate and comprehend the dream we are surpassing. 

Slide electric guitar, synthesizer, mandolin by your truly.

Photo of Kan Yunis pilfered from page of Masab Abu Toha

Zakir Dhikr

PTT = press to talk -- is a feature of walkie talkies -- here used to create live feedback via SDR ( == software defined radio) devices. I've just begun to experiment with this kind of ventriloquism via radio

PTT TRANCE EXP

Field recordings of the Baltic coast, radio from Marine UHF, Shortwave (all recorded coastally on Dec 24/25) and synthesizer added early today during the live mix. This edition in memory of Miguel A. Garcia who's recent passing haunts my listening at this time.

Baltic Ozones I

Volca Kick, synthesizer, snake drum, electric guitar

Dark Flower's Power

first day of the rest (of yr life)

Schumann Resonance, Synthesizer, VLF & Short & Long Wave Radio, Field Recordings, Voice with text by Guyanese writer Wilson Harris as point of departure and return. 

The Ghost of Memory

Eyeball Planet excerpt op 728

"It Burns Me Up!" written by Ray Bradbury, adapted for audio by David Ossman, directed and produced by Tony Brewer, performed live at The Bishop, Bloomington IN, 16 Dec 2015.

It Burns Me Up!

Tony Brewer Audio

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