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Music

Sound: The Untitled Coffee Pot

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Post date January 10, 2021
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In anticipation of some inbound sonic hardware, I’ve started fooling around, once again, with Ableton and some of my “field recordings.” In this case, the field in question was a kitchen, and the recording is of a coffee pot. Classic, no? My ongoing observations and curiosities of EQ and other audio properties/manipulation, by way of video tutorials galore, has allowed me to expand my capacity to create very strange sounds indeed. Ideally these will go somewhere, when the hardware mentioned above arrives, and the scale of the sounds will also grow.

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Photos: Memory Forms and Further Forms

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Post date January 10, 2021
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The following are two sets of self portraits I took while on San Juan Island last month. This was the first time I created a low-budget photography studio, and the first time I ritualized photography concerning the physical human body as the main theme/subject. As explored below in Memory forms, movement accompanied each of the forms (or poses) that I created and worked through. The forms themselves remain secret, a language that was used to inform the project but not define the output to the external viewers.

In the second sequence, Further Forms, I have created various forms of amalgamations of the Memory Forms, using some fairly basic blending techniques. The resulting abstract forms were the result of an inquiry on the forms within photography’s editing process.

Book Reviews

A Double Review of Song Cave Titles

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Post date January 2, 2021
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A couple of new books, both fantastic, are now out via The Song Cave.

They are: A Better Place is Hard to Find by Aaron Fagan and Rough Song by Blanca Varela, translated by Carlos Lara.

I have reviewed them in a Harper’s-esque double feature via North of Oxford.

Book Reviews

A New Review: A Grave is Given Supper by Mike Soto

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Post date December 31, 2020
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I have a review in the latest Rain Taxi print edition. This one is for Mike Soto’s A Grave is Given Supper. Order a copy of Rain Taxi here.

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Memory Forms Preview

I have taken some time to work with a new camera setup at the Whiteley Center at Friday Harbor Labs. A new project has emerged: Memory Forms. Here is a preview image from the experience:

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Whiteley Center GIF Bundle Released!

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Post date December 26, 2020
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Here at the Whiteley Center on San Juan Island, I have had time to focus on literary, audio, and video works.

I have completed what is definitely the final GIF sequence of the year, which I’ve labeled at the Whiteley Center GIF Bundle. Check it out on this page here.

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GIFs Wrap-Up for the Year

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Post date December 14, 2020
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I have just posted a large collection of large GIFs, created to round out the final days of the calendar year. This bundle, as I’m calling it, contains the aquatic and the natural, continued. It is a gentle extension of the most recent GIFs posted recently.

In the near future, I intend to create more abstract video works that will be shared in video form. This includes GIF images, but displayed in repetition. I hope that this method will make the works more accessible and retain their size and scope. This work will most likely commence in early 2021.

Videos

Twin Falls Video

Some of the footage I carve the GIFs out of tends to be mammoth and beautiful in long form. I was inspired to make this silent video from the Twin Falls of the Cascades outside Seattle by the ambient elegance and power of Ana Roxanne’s amazing albums, Because of a Flower and ~~~. The homages to water are pleasantly always.

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Photo – Precipice

This black and white image was taken in the Sonoran Desert at the Organ Pipe National Monument in December, 2020.

Book Reviews Friendships My Poetry My Publications

Of Spray and Mist Review – Joshua Lew McDermott

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Post date December 13, 2020
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I’m very grateful for Joshua Lew McDermott’s Of Spray and Mist review for Line Rider Press. Joshua looped in my naturalism and librarianship in a way that elevates the book and pushes it further. Many thanks, Joshua!

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A Gazillion GIFs 2

Another week, another processing night for all the GIFs in my night. As per the GIFs page, here’s the following additions to the family:

Sammamish

Kubota Gardens

Colorado National Monument

Book Reviews

A Review of Hysteria by Kim Yideum

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Post date December 1, 2020
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My review of Kim Yideum’s Hysteria (Action Books, 2019) is now up at North of Oxford. This was a long-time-coming, and I had hoped for it to be published sooner. Glad to see it up now!

Read the review here.

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Kubota Koi

Being present for these ghostly beings is an ideal practice. Taken at the Kubota Gardens in Seattle on November 29, 2020.

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A Gazillion GIFs 1

A new push on my end has resulted in a flurry of fun-filled GIF images. Still moving. Still defunct as a format. These are great time consumers, capable of creatively getting me into the body of the footage I record. This is the artful way that screams in joy and terror at once.

As per the GIFs page, here are the latest offerings:

I was able to churn these out quickly and enjoyably. I have a lot of footage with a new lens that will be posted soon, as well.

Stay liquid.

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South Fork of the Snoqualmie

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Post date November 23, 2020
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