Have you heard of InferKit? I’ve been using it once in a while, here and there, to create short prose works. Not for anything other than my own morbid AI curiosity. I decided to try and generate a bio note today, which inspired the AI to come up with a (not yet created) book and a brand new, Whitmanesque poem. The prompt is first in bold, and then the generative text.
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A New Sound Project: roarbuzz
It’s been a while since I posted any new audio works. This is the first new exploration in sound since May 2021’s Dunn Gardens. roarbuzz uses found sound from a hostel in Banff, along with Paul’s Extreme Sound Stretch, and a bunch of EQing in Ableton. The result is the most ambient work I’ve ever created, and the first in a sequence of audio projects that are connected to a larger performance piece in development. Stream below or visit the roarbuzz Bandcamp page to purchase/download.
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Strange Time: The Belfair GIFs
Footage from October 2022. Created with Resolve and QGIFer.
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New poem in New SPREAD
The latest SPREAD (Issue 80) contains my poem “I Dream the Licks,” which discusses the fire at Umtanum Creek from a couple years back. Copies can be ordered at spankstra@hotmail.com.
Via North of Oxford, I have reviewed Syrian poet Saleh Razzouk’s collection, newly translated into English by Philip Terman, Tango Below a Narrow Ceiling.
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Days of Open Water #10 (Final)
The ninth of a series of minimalist images of water. Original images captured in January, 2022 in Discovery Park, Seattle.
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Days of Open Water #9
The ninth of a series of minimalist images of water. Original images captured in January, 2022.
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Days of Open Water #8
The eighth of a series of minimalist images of water. Original images captured in January, 2022.
Water source footage from Ellensburg (April 2022), New Orleans (May 2022), Lake Wenatchee (June 2022), and Heidelberg (July 2022).
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Days of Open Water #7
The seventh of a series of minimalist images of water. Original images captured in January, 2022.
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Days of Open Water #6
The sixth of a series of minimalist images of water. Original images captured in January, 2022.
Images from September 2022.
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Days of Open Water #5
The fifth of a series of minimalist images of water. Original images captured in January, 2022.
