For Alice Notley (an addendum to a previous post about her sudden removal from the linear)

 

 

For Alice

   well maybe it only means

you don't have to pretend

or perform any longer

only flow with delight entropic

& you will be obvious

once and for all undeniable

self-similar to us anonymously

united in the overwhelming absence

ahead of all matter

& found in many places perfectly

unexpected both normal weirdo

fitting to all sandy particles

a strand of beach a string

of opals or yet nothing like that

faceted multi or not at all

fixed like that but unable to not emerge

also shadow of face feathers within face

glowing fox snake owl ointment

hydro carbon metallic catalyst

desperate unembraceable you un-you

of the sudden disincarnates ablossom

well discordant and wry

just portent tangentially sensitive

to all the things not there you echo

tuned into absence radio

resonant with the decibel void

as our general non-existence deepens

thickens and densifies

& merges again into will be

thrown celestium velocity

what scatters out eons

coming out pronouns

you me us inclusive

exclusive, elusive,

at home in the incomplete

Suchness & the Field of What Recording is About for Me or Back in the Garden Again

 

 https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/album/new-totemic-encounters-2025

 

 

As Joni spread the fairy dust stardust golden canticle

and opened us to the seemingly impossible task

of getting ourselves back to the garden (not just the Rave

of Woodstock but to the X not marked on any map

--- I am reminded here of formulae from the alchemical 90's

which came to me in Sun Ra's voice one day:

the treasure map where X marks the spot is Map of Mystery

where X marks the spot of destination, el dorado, delusional ends

whereas the Mystical Map is where X marks the moment

this locus of process and reality evolving its flower

 

Eden is among us. It is found within the foundation of pure love. The keystone is within every seeker to join the formation of the temple. Eden is pure vibrational awareness, a modality of consciousness and sensation. Music is only a portal or a bridge to the feeling. Field recording is a ritual return to primordial perception while the alleged rational scientific purpose is ethnographic, ecologically rooted, leaving us with data to study and learn more about our environment. This learning is without end. The experience of the vibration also is without end and the spiritual aspect often lost in the gear is that circuit of vibrational constant sensing itself on all bandwidths. 

 

Musical instruments and recording gear are tools and as MacLuhan or Novalis seemed to say they are models and extensions of our own organs. 

 

Novalis suggested that new organs of gnosis and feeling were evolving. 

 

 All field recording is the creation of memories of places made sacred by memorialization, annotations of a transaction with the recognized infinite, temporary temples. Hildegard of Bingen had a garden too and I feel it must not have been far from Eden. It's modality was called Viriditas or the "greening power of G-d" Music, art, deity, earth, sky in no particular order or in every order in the palm trees, figs, olives, in the eyes of the wondering miraculous baby Buddha or the hooves of the ibex. Everything that is and including that which is not. As Lao Tze remarked, "the hole in the hub is what makes the wheel useful". The axle connects all the wheels.It is a thoughtful, mindful world and you are within it as discovery itself.