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The Inconspicuous Meaning Of Conspicuous Signs (three unrealizable forest fantasies in rounded binary form)

by Ron Shalom

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1.
Ron, everything is a waste of time, everything is an indulgence. 14:13
2.
Or better, those terms are disingenuous and do not belong in our language. They act to shroud the broader crisis and misery of everything, of all the power, suffering, and death between lifeforms. 06:41
3.
Everybody is either openly in shambles, or if they are not, then they are crazy. 10:00

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i devote myself to the abandoned suburban woods of my neighborhood. this has shown me what prayer might be like: a dedication to grapple with the incognizable, the fervor of working with and through non-understanding.

things are a lot worse than i thought. we're really out of our wits. i am.

a year ago i presented a lecture on Extraordinarily Beautiful Things and the paralysis of encountering them, the corporeal ineffable. this was in the context of autumn. i would say now that the whole of autumn is a struggle with muteness. when we are forced to confront so much beauty so relentlessly it is like a trigger of spiritual abuse. we are forced to remember how far we have fallen.

what you hear is just a working through of fantasies, of the time i would like to spend in prayer in the woods with these impossible forest sounds, realized by enormous but silent speakers about 100 feet apart - and me very far away, on a hill, for the reverb of hollers and trees and all tiny things that nest and obscure sounds. my fantasies are only ever about the extremely familiar: i want to experience all of my most intimate worlds as from very far away, as with legs in all of them bridging their intractable separation. i just want to see what i know.

you could crack a window while listening, and it would be a little like you are outside. it might actually be a nice suggestion to the imagination. do that. how else might you fill the expectant silences? anyway you see how this music should be listened to as a fragment of an impossible architecture.

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released December 1, 2012

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