iScape LA: Hear my bus comin'

Second track of that Sunday in LA

Track 2: 2:20am at the corner of Hollywood and Vine, waiting for the bus to take me home.

iScape Baja: Tracklisting

Track 1: Greyhound Tenor

iScape Baja: Greyhound Tenor

This year's 4th July was duly spent in Baja California. The coming recordings and pictures will try to convey some of the Mexican magic.

Track 1: On board the Greyhound LA => TJ bus, the guy seating in the front seat provides un avant-gout of the Mexican joie de vivre.

PS: anybody knows what the dude is singing?

iScape LA: Tracklisting

Track 1: 2am on Hollywood blvd
Track 2: 2:20am Gargling at the corner of Hollywood and Vine

iScape LA: A Sunday in LA

A few recordings of LA's soundscape on Sunday September 30.

Track 1: 2am on Hollywood Blvd. Coming out of the DJ Krush set at the Knitting Factory and slowly biking up to the bus station at Hollywood and Vine. Scary pouffes. Neat Rythms. There was a guy rapping freestyle over the drums, what a pity he did not have a mic.

Soleil Couchant (X2) Pour Jambes En l'Air *

Vous avez l'audace d'un fruit suicidaire

qui exigerait qu'on le croquât.

*

You are being as audacious as a suicidal fruit

who would insist on beeing eaten up

* Sunset (X2) For Legs on Air

Psychedelic Chick

Bahbel: Die Zeit die Laüft

Because some poetry deserves to cross the borders of nations and languages.

Die Zeit die Lauft (track 3) is an interpretation of "le temps qui court" originally interpreted by Alliage. Louis Aragon warned us in "La beauté du Diable" ( Le Roman Inachevé, Aragon 1956) but had difficulties to touch interested parties, Alliage went straight to the hearts, divine.

Et finalement après quelques années
Tes rêves ne sont plus ceux d'une enfant
Et les roses posées dans ta chambre
Remplacent aujourd'hui les fleurs des champs

Original lyrics by Artz Adrienne and Manilow Barry

Name Dropping En Societe

Marco Dos Santos? El rey del electro moustache!


Samples of the bigote music here

Ego Charizma & Peanut Butter Pitt

When egos and mirror meet around a funky beat

Hallow Voice

What's in the power of speech? The words? The voice? Charisma?
Rhetoric dissected with historic speeches recited by our impartial robot.

Speech 1

Thanks to Adobe for the voice generator.

Name dropping en societe

That Salvador Plascencia is really the Boris Vian of Latino American literature.

Yummy SPAM

New offspring of the CAAG, the Yummy SPAM project. Share your junk with us!

Wild Books: Death of a Salesman

The dead salesman is back on the road.

Bought at Black Oak Books on Broadway, San Francisco (since closed sadly) and released at Zephyr cafe in Pasadena.

Happy book picker let us know what you thought of the play and where you released it!

More on Wild Books here

iScape LA: Flying Carpet

Flying Carper over Pasadena

Alphabet: Corporal Expression

Perverted Mix covering his own X

Times: Scan this Book!

Very interesting article on the on-going digitazation of books and knowledge. Scan this Book! by Kevin Kelly in the Sunday May 14, 2006 edition of the The New York Times.

It will be quite interesting to witness the unraveling of this scanning enterprise. Can't help but be reminded of the ending of Ray Bradburry's Fahrenheit 451, where books are temporarily being brainitized in order to fight against the volatile nature some people force on them. There are some reasons to be concerned with culture concentration and monopoly even if they happen officially to ease culture access to everybody. Culture ownership also rhymes with censorphip, and the Chinese eagerness in this adventure is bitter sweet.

Some interesting numbers mentioned in the article:
"From the days of Sumerian clay tablets till now, humans have "published" at least 32 million books, 750 million articles and essays, 25 million songs, 500 million images, 500,000 movies, 3 million videos, TV shows and short films and 100 billion public Web pages."

At a time where giga sounds ol' school, it is almost shocking to learn that printed productions over the history are counted in millions. The web indeed can claim to be a tool of expression for the masses.

"The size of this abandoned library is shocking: about 75 percent of all books in the world's libraries are orphaned. Only about 15 percent of all books are in the public domain. A luckier 10 percent are still in print. The rest, the bulk of our universal library, is dark."

How long before the creation of a resistance movement for the praise of the dark library? Small communities sharing and reading from ghostly books that exist only in the physical world.

We have scanned books too here on rahdel, the intent being to reflect on our culture as it was seen and advertized in the past (example A and B). Will it be possible to do the same thing in the future with digitized knowledge for which edits leave no trace? E-books will always be mirrors of today and may not capture the evolution of our thinking.

iScape Latvia: Tejnica's Boutique

Credits: Travelin' Klaus
Click to enlarge

Protoetry: Belly Fish

Something inspired by a rather gloomy picture posted a while back.

Belly Fish

- All this life I buoyed
Striking tail and fins.
Last, I be buoyed
In peace.

On a grasp of air I cannot breathe
Out with full belly I blimp.
Quietly shooting for higher
limbo.

The world of Pearl is no glimpse of haven
For the mortal fish. To me her limbs
Are flashing over the billowing lips
of a dimming sight.

The body is inflatuated with death,
Now full of unreleased exhaustion
Waiting for the soothing pin to
Punctuate that life.

iScape Cisco: Pass Away

Apres Mon Passage

Armand, Place des Vosges, September 2003

Ta fleur n'est plus une rose,
Elle a l'apparence d'un choux.
Cependant que tu t'echoues
Dans les meandres de ma prose.

San Francisco Beach, April 2006