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Like many, I spent my college days living with another person in a single room.
We used to set up a card table for playing games or working on creative projects, and sometimes we'd wake up the next morning and look at the table from the night before, and we'd find it littered with a strange array of items: puzzle pieces and cut-up religious texts and rubber bugs and electrical tape and plastic masks and empty containers that once held buffalo wings. We used to refer to this phenomenon as "crazy man table," because the weird items on display would hint at a single cryptic project of the sort you might find in progress in an insane man's workshop.
I've carried the term with me, and still use it to describe any tabletop evidence of radical parataxis. It's been in heavy usage around here since I started using Cool Edit Pro to revitalize my work with found sounds. In addition to the normal clutter of index cards, candles, and CD jewel cases, my desk is now littered with all sorts of soundmaking items including vibrators, a harmonica, a wind-up skeleton, the squeaky toy that Bonni sent me, and a handful of styrofoam peanuts.
Related: spent some time yesterday poking around the website of Brutum Fulmen, an electroacoustic act from CT. Main guy Jeff Wrench sprinkles some descriptions of his process around various pages of the site and they have some relevance to the Number None process.
Grading update: 75 done, which closes out this first batch of papers. 525 left to go before semester's end, including the 150 that will come in next week. Labels: creative_process, personal
Thursday, September 19, 2002
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