contains scraps of graeme kirkland, the damned, and synth epiphanies

DAMNED

You got your melody in my noise!
You got your noise in my melody!

Every Morning It's Like This

Trouble Loves ME

Lyrics

In November 1982 Exxon made a prediction
that in two score years we'd be up a degree
their seers were sound, their science tight, there is no contradiction
between the sights the seers saw, and the sights we see
the permafrost
the polar caps 
they've had to change the landscape maps
the thicket - gone
the eagle - gone
it seems so sad to me
we've plastic trinkets,
games galore,
there's more stuff on sale at the store
my eyes burn with pollutants
still there are the sights I see

Youve got things to do 
and places to be
I have no doubt you'll go far
You can watch the endless road unfold
and operate efficiently
as you roll along the roadway
in your compact car

It's been a long time coming - with supply chains so extended
things produced, shipped, and assembled just in time
As Ed Lorenz and Ellen Fetter taught us, complicated systems
change with subtle perturbations in a way that's quite sublime
the great plains dry
the glaciers
albedo change makes hydrologists nervous
the thicket - gone
the eagle - gone
it seems so sad to me
imaginary line goes up
like billionaire faux astronauts
I remove rose tinted lenses
and these are the sights I see

You've got things to do 
and places to be
I have no doubt you'll go far
You can forgo the honest sweat
of physical exertion
as you roll along the roadway
in your compact car

Of our present circumstances there's a marvelous depiction
in the Great Wave Off Kanagawa by Hokusai
the oceanic atmospheric energy is risen
and every wave breaks, by and by
food and water
shelter and sky
and a whole lotta love weren't enough for us
the thicket - gone
the eagle - gone
it seems so sad to me
acidified brine's
warm embrace
rises on the coasts to greet us
the water laps my ankles
these are the sights I see

You've got things to do
and places to be
I have no doubt you'll go far
You can watch the twitching spasms 
of industrial civilization
as you roll along the roadway
in your compact car

COMPACT CAR

OffKiLTer

HYVE

Prion Number Nine

I don't know what you mean when you say "a higher level"
 or "evolved"
I think you make bad separations between things that aren't separate at all
everything's it's opposite, anyone who say's it's different is wrong
every blessing has a burden
every mourning has a song

we can't lift each other up because direction is perception at the root
and what's a lie for me, for you might be a portion of the truth
incarnate, in the meat, mortality's the only absolute
when you need to know a tree
you can know it by it's fruit

one day you won't be you, you will be someone else
in eternity I'll be you, you will be me as well
sometimes we hunger, else times we're well fed
the only king you need to kill
is the king inside your head

needs must when the devil drives

the vocal sample is from Tanya Talaga's opening Massey Lecture
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-2018-cbc-massey-lectures-all-our-relations-finding-the-path-forward-1.4763007

In it she quotes the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr, from the  Massey Lecture he gave in 1967

The words bear repeating, so I repeated them

Any Human Force

Heart So Heavy

Dim God

THRUMS - Monophonic spinning wheel drone instrument and custom dsp.

An empty sign.
An opened heart.

Spinning wheel recording captured on Distaff Day 2023.
Wool is undyed natural grey Gotland from Coombs.
signal processing in Max/MSP & Ableton.

MotherOfAll

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4 minutes of pre-practice room sounds by the vivacious Andrea Wong turned into broken, attenuated, heavily eroded night-drive smooth jazz

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