I have to figure out the back end of this story progression today so I can rewrite and do the detail work tomorrow and start scripting Saturday and last night I stalled out at 1130pm so into the mines I go. Happy Beltane.
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I packed up a battery powered synth (softpop) and amp, and my binaural mic and hiked out to Hidden Lake in Putnam County, NY with David who brought a hydrophone and some speakers along with his clarinet and iPad.
We made some sounds inspired by what was happening below the surface*. The results are strange and surprising!
Chive plant arrived yesterday (I’ve so far had no luck growing them from seed).
Today marks the end of full-on Lab Mode. By the weekend I need to be in Production Mode during daytime, and stay there for around three months. I may squander part of today’s time by going out to hard-prune the buddleia that’s growing over compost bin two, if the weather stays good. But mostly it’s about finishing some thoughts and prepping for the three days of outline generation from notes that I need done by end of play Friday to set up the next four weeks of production.
Inbox cut back to 48, what remains is mostly just stuff I want to access easily. 1110am and all’s well.
Importantly, these cursus monuments are clearly aligned with burial monuments in the landscape, as well as the rising and setting sun during major solar events such as the solstice.
According to Dr. O’Driscoll, “This may have symbolized the ascent of the dead into the heavens and their perceived rebirth, with the cursus physically setting out the final route of the dead, where they left the land of the living and joined the ancestors beyond the visible horizon.”
Well, the time is never found, quoth Ms Cameron; it can only be made. But it is also the case that habits must be broken or (re)built one at a time…
When you are sitting there looking at an individual tweet, watching youtube video, or looking at an Instagram post, ask yourself: “What About This Excites Me?“.
The question I’m finding, serves as good jumping off point to becoming more conscious of about the engagement with the media I’m consuming. This question helps me immediately identify whether my engagement is driven by genuine interest or merely habitual scrolling.
The epic may go to the origins: the archetypes of thought, emotion and spiritual desire, and dissolve them in the present. The sensuous, contemporary life, seen from the perspectives of both past and future: film. Like music, the cinema is experienced as a continuous, live process of energies. It is conceived and best remembered in a flash, a composite whole.—Kumar Shahani, Film as a Contemporary Art
Laura Cannell is a musician based in Suffolk, East Anglia, England. Her work combines experimental, folk, early and medieval music, as well as a number of unique and rare techniques.
Her website is https://lauracannell.com/ where you can find out about recordings and gigs, or you can visit her Brawl Records bandcamp site to check out music and buy recordings.
The music in this episode is from Laura’s recent ‘Lore’ series, available through the bandcamp site.
Host Justin Hopper has an Uncanny Landscapes substack. The Substack is free, and includes the podcast + more. JH can be found via LinkTree or on Instagram.
One of the fig plants is leafing up nicely. Don’t know if they’ll fruit this year, but at least they’re alive.
The sun is finally out today, so I’m hoping to carve out a couple of hours to attend to plants before the rain and gales come back.
The spam bots seem to have figured out how to defeat double-opt-in when subscribing to the newsletter. I’ve spent time over the last few days deleting them out of the subscriber base by hand. This means I’m constantly checking, constantly looking at the stats, looking at the open rate and waiting for spam reports to appear. I have therefore made the executive decision to say Fuck It and ignore the stats from now on. Making a shortcut that takes me straight to the new-post window and past the dashboard. I’ll look in once a month, and if crucial figures have fallen hard, I’ll take a torch to the list using some kind of automation.
Can’t help but wonder if someone’s yoked Gmail to a LLM and figured out how to get past Captcha gates and automated the opt-in responses.
OPERATIONS: Newsletter went out yesterday. I have two story documents and one dev document in front of me that I really want to get into – an artist and I are talking about doing a big project together and the references we’re throwing around are wonderfully crazy.
COMMS: Inbox 59.
LISTENING:
READING: re-reading some Artaud for work reasons (UK) (US+)
LAST WATCHED: There was a new episode of MOONSHINERS: MASTER DISTILLER. Go ahead, judge me.
Among the many weirdnesses of my brain: if I’m having trouble getting to sleep, I can usually watch some of a film or listen to music in my head. If I’ve watched a film a few times, my memory can project large passages of it for me as I lay there with eyes closed, and I have a small library of music I can play back. It gets strange on the edge of sleep: the other night, I listened to an instrumental version of Arcade Fire’s “Tunnels,” – I always found the lyrics and Win Butler’s voice faintly annoying, but I love that delicate, curlicued repeating refrain, and the end section, where the music peaks and splashes away at the crest as the band ride out. So the next day I went to YouTube and found an actual instrumental version that exists. It’s missing a few things from mine – I retained the distant cooing at the end from the original, in my version.
It’s an interesting place to be: to invent music in hypnagogia and find it on the internet in the morning.
David Lynch Looking to Make Animated Film ‘Snootworld,’ Pitch Rejected by Netflix
David Lynch has come out of hiding and is telling Deadline that he’s hoping to find backers for an animated project titled “Snootworld,” even if Netflix recently “rejected” his “fairytale” pitch.
Apparently, in recent months, Lynch has been “quietly” trying to find backers to finance the project which he’s co-scripted alongside Caroline Thompson (“Edward Scissorhands”).
April 28, 2024 at 11:03PM
www.dw.com – German far-right coup plot trial to begin
The first of three trials linked to a far-right coup plot begins in Germany on Monday, with the defendants accused of preparing to commit high treason and belonging to a terrorist organization.
All the suspects, part of the so-called “Reichsbürger” movement, were allegedly plotting to overthrow the German government. The Reichsbürger, or “citizens of the Reich,” reject Germany’s post-war state, claiming it was installed and controlled by the Allied powers who won World War II.
April 28, 2024 at 07:44PM