Thursday, April 12, 2007

Critical Karoake

This is the text I wrote for the Critical Karaoke project which I spoke over the NEXUS & Fritz Hauser improvisation out of the blue. It is all original except for two lines which I have cited in brackets.

Here's a recording of it:

http://www.willderness.ca/outofblue.mp3

Out of the blue.
Improvisation
Spontaneity
Real time
Unedited, uncensored
Alive
It’s out of the blue.
Malleable
Ever changing
Amorphous
Or morphous?
It depends,
Since it’s out of the blue.
Some say cacophony
Others say polyphony
It’s a matter of perception –
But it’s out of the blue.
Individual voices
Fade into a collective whole
A melting pot of sonorities
That is out of the blue.
Instinct
Intuition
Let the drum guide you
Out of the blue.
See with your ears (John Wyre)
Play with what you hear (Robin Engelman)
Visualize the invisible
As you journey out of the blue.
Create
Innovate
Meditate
Communicate
Out of the blue.

You walk outside, into the crowded city streets. Traffic. Traffic of thoughts, of emotions. Traffic of people. Traffic of automobiles. Traffic of development. Traffic of drugs. Some call this a cacophony, others call it polyphony. To some it is the dissonance of living in a large urban centre. To others, it is the consonance of daily life. It’s a matter of perception. The individual voices – of humans, of animals, of technology fade into the collective whole of a city soundscape. A backdrop to daily existence. Embraced, or ignored. On a macro level, everyone is a dot in a continuum of space and time. What connects these dots? What guides their travel? Instinct. Intuition. Interaction. Biological hard wiring inherent in the human condition. Let guidance be sought. See the big picture. The continuum of space and time. See your place in it. Visualize the invisible and embrace it. Create, innovate, meditate, communicate. Life happens, out of the blue.

Tune your world
Let goodness be unfurled.
Let music be the source of union
So the collective can share in a communion
Of experiences, of goals, of identities.

Tune yourself,
Not to four-fourty
But find what
Matches your sonority.

Life may be out of the blue, but it doesn’t have to catch you.

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