Radio Chthulucene 87.9 FM

I’m thinking of all the soundscapes in the room with me right now. There’s wind through the window. Car rumble. The heel of a bare foot shuffling on carpet. Typing. This typing. Silence. Across me: a modem and wifi router. Is that another soundscape? I don’t really know how sound works. Either way there are so many signals in the room, in my body.

I prefer unripe bananas to ripe bananas. I am getting my haircut tomorrow morning. There is peanut butter on the table. I once heard an Irish woman tell a story about a hair witch who takes the hair of her visitors; every pillow in her house is full of an amalgam of different people’s hair. I heard that story on a podcast, another type of soundscape. A stored soundscape: on internet on data. 

I am trying to put my radio in the office I work in at Birch Aquarium. Approval is pending. 

In revising my piece, I am thinking about interruption, overlay, and pop-up. I am trying to blend distinct “word windows” over and around one another. Like the program Windows—with the concept of individual application windows being appropriated by nearly every contemporary operating system—I want to keep each word window distinct. I am experimenting with doing this by inserting bolded text in and around unbolded text:

flattened  t  anomaly  h  flattened  e  chronology  s  delineate  t  time  r  line   bending i  I am  n  in  g  lockstep  s  desync  v  latency  i  >100 ping  b  bro  r  im lagging  a  out  t  bro  e  turn off  a  your  s  lag switch  a  clipping   rubberbanding  f  the character  i  appearing to  n   leap from  g  one place  e  to another  r  without passing  p  [having passed]  l  through the  u  intervening space  c  (here there, moving from)  k  (moving, but still)  s  and back  t  and  h  like  e  playing cs:go  m  over DSL  t  [Mom,  h  do   e   not  s  turn on  o  the microwave!]  u  I think  n  in conspiracy  d   I think   r   I sync   e   I think   v   in big tent  e   I see inside   r   I see insides   b   I see-saw   s   all conjunction   o   and   v   or   e   and   r   or   i   and   t   I am   s   and   e   I am not   l   and   therefore, I am  f  so

That example is more interwoven, I guess. I guess I was thinking of reverb too, in conjunction with application windows, and the way overlays and layering happen in musical and visual mediums, and less so in written mediums. I mean, in most pop songs you can parse out individual instruments or elements if you focus hard enough, but on a casual listen you kinda experience it all as one. I also think with music there is a greater willingness to overtly not understand “the meaning” of a song, which is less so with written mediums. I think part of my project is trying to play with that sense of “over-lay-er-ing” and more aesthetic (in this case, visual) pleasure, even if the exact sense is more abstract or harder to parse.