Sam & Rod

It’s Sam Andreae’s birthday today so I made him THIS! Based on the battle pieces he and Rod have been working on.

As reference, this is what a battle piece is:

Strikethrough Me and You (part 1) in Sam’s Basement from Sam Andreae on Vimeo.

The Universe Strummin a Chord

“But it’s a hard chord, so we don’t always get amazing moments…just so-so ones.” –Rod
(Owned by able and honest violinist, Linda Jankowska.)

Pulse

Ryoko Akama had her composition performed by Sumie Kent, master koto player. I made this video of that performance. Beautiful koto sounds.

Exposition

On January 22, 2013

So the most important thing to me would be

THE SIMPLE TRUTH

It’s that fundamental idea that I’m just here.

There’s nothing more to say about that.

Then there’s something I have to deal with:

THE IMAGINARY ADVERSARY

Then there’s

LANGUAGE ITSELF

which is that it is a filter.

Then we can talk about

WHY

This can be broken up

—as far as I know, or have thought about it—

into MY MOTIVATION and THE CONDITIONS

Then there’s

METAPHOR

That is called the Homunculus, and this is called the Cartesian Theatre.

Memories! That’s weird…

Then it will be the end of our species.

Again, I need to focus on right now.

So some of my MOTIVATIONS are fear-based

Maybe you’re just me.

Maybe you’re just me out there.

[At this point I should have written

PROCESS

This occurred to me only later that day.]

probably the most

legible manifestations of that communication

Sight/Consciousness Studies