1. |
Time and the Weather
08:46
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the weather is routinely
unseasonable
no reliable reports
unpredictable
set up the microphone
time enough to prepare
wireless reports
the bay the sunset
the gale wind chimes
watching makes time
enough to prepare
to set the levels
deep height of day
reports wireless booster
trees ticking web
signal transmission
long distance thunder
supercell updraft
trees ticking web
microphone knitting
attenuating
talking ticking
scattering of light
the bay makes weather
test the limits
scattering of light
antenna system
two hours of night
the bay makes weather
the bright blinding light
reports wireless booster
on the cumulus bay
to make more time
time enough to prepare
calm wind of day
hailstones prepare
away from the land
and away from the land
the trees move enough
watching makes time
wireless reports
incoherent
supercell updraft
on the cumulus bay
two hours to sunset
cable delivery
time and the weather
storm clouds blow in
band unpredictable
two hours to sunset
some incoherent
deep height of day
blizzard against window
antenna system
weather routine
trees move enough
longer transmission
accumulate report
hailstones prepare
signal transmission
portable trees
accumulating nimbus
watching makes time
unseasonable
watch the trees move
watch enough time
test the limits
west, north, south, east
move across microphone
unpredictable
thunder wave band
dusk came quickly
calm wind of day
rough wind of storm
two hours to sunset
thunder spins level
and spirals around
away from the land
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2. |
Without Moment
04:08
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moving across the bay
song of cicada crackle
hissing from trees
electric night
moving in from the bay
anticyclonic rain
in hanging dark cloud static
through misty haze
into the light
in the darkness of day
and now
without moment the storm
that blows in tonight
is riding the crest of the bay
and then
without movement in the
cold morning light
was rounding the west of this day
dragonflies, ants, and moths
locusts, termites, and beetles
firefly night
deep in the light
warm afternoon autumn
silver light water steel
grab and hold swell kite ripples
morning glows red
frost, snow, and drought
moving across the bay
and soon
short and long waves will cross
the beach some night
riding the north of a day
and when the
long dusk short twilight
in warm evening sun
the white full moon will rise again
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3. |
Small Sounds
05:58
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printed on the wind
the material of space
atmosphere of the planet
wave and radiation
a built-in speaker’s tinny sound
struggles to be heard
and speaks of distance
category one
network cryptoworms
double pulsar tool
killed the operation
surfing the short wave now
straight line of sight for
distance communication
reflected and refracted
across the ionosphere
skywave propagation
stratas of air and gas
electromagnetism
beyond the shores
of this bastard island
small sounds
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4. |
Pattern Accumulating
11:05
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percentage clear clouds
1705UTC
sea level pressure
17,850 kHz, June 25 10:48UTC
the signal is weak
13,710kHz
12,035
UTC 20:52
clouds percent broken clear
few overcast scattered
Russian channel marker
precipitation
level pressure snowfall
diurnal temperature range
20:33 UTC
The Voice of Vietnam in Russian
announcing number & letter groups
snow depth
Mean Wind Vector Magnitude wind chill
15,435kHz
dewpoint temperature
7,260kHz
quarter diurnal reading
April 22
military parade style music
11,735 kHz
USB E07 “The Englishman” Russian numbers station
a lot of fading and noise
December 11
UTC 20:52
heat index
Voice of Indonesia with Arabic language speech and music
few overcast scattered
The Voice of Mongolia
Radio Thailand, a regular visitor
daily minimum temperature
North Korean Broadcasting Service
Jul-16
17:15UTC
Korean weather broadcast
Asian drift net fishing beacon, on five minute cycle
9,730kHz
9,665kHz
cooling, clouds, snowfall
jamming signal in background
15,435 signal had men talking, like a news or interview
UTC 1643
Fair to good signal with low modulation and some noise/fading
11:48 UTE 1.762MHz CW “2AFVW 2AFVW 2AFVW”
heating degree days
17:05UTC
Radio Vanuatu
China with male & female chatting in Chinese, sounds informal.
16:45UTC
Christian music national anthem
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5. |
Brownout
05:41
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waiting for the brownout
the lapse occurred at breakfast
the dropped cup overturned
on the table again
absent seconds began
and ended suddenly
then time came together again
flat screen
horizon
eating
sleeping
tracing a line on a page
super eight and video tape
kept us young
waiting for the brownout
after the crash 1979
going nowhere fast
speed flattening everything
we were man and woman
one hundred brownouts daily
but time came together again
middle
distant
flat screen
horizon
eating
sleeping
tracing a line on a page
super eight and video tape
kept us young
waiting for the brownout
we were woman and man
we were both and neither
nothing seemed to exist
or couldn’t be described
or communicated
when time came together again
twilight
brownout
middle
distant
flat screen
horizon
eating
sleeping
tracing a line on a page
super eight and video tape
kept us young
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6. |
In Dixon
04:27
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straight streets colony
neatly gridded plot
boarded up windows
abandoned infill housing
pothole cracked pavements
canal floating garbage
topsoil runoff arid
alleyway laneway
beach abandoned cycles
distant ticking high-hat
nineties Berlin techno
warm diurnal breeze
brown-out days
black-out nights
esplanade speeding traffic
plantation reclamation
scrubby undergrowth
landscaped foreshore bush
strange lizard mutant rodent
triangulation midden
lone cyclist dog walker
horizon swelling waves
wind blown beach bushes
single lone windsurfer
eighteen hours of daylight
brown-out days
black-out nights
unexpected dusk
ship on the horizon
city tower skyline
distant highway bridge
dockyard static cranes
breakwater black rocks
cold dark twilight seconds
midnight deep black hour
shuttered supermarket
little stock remains
unharvested crops
brown-out days
black-out nights
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nostalgia out of place
location out of time
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7. |
Mainland Distance
09:57
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mainland ferry
twice a week
roll through township
witness behavior
conversation social order
face to face situations
test the limits
conversation
interaction
no offence taken
stave off boredom
performance etiquette
self presentation
self to the other
self to the self
conscious experience
phenomenal self model
someone socially
an ideal real
everything green
super gassed
trapfit math get bun
soul food step flex
restaurants cinemas
theatres living rooms
shopping centres
streets and stations
bored young bored old
heat and cold
hotbox takeaway
Protein Bar
food prescription
sterilised tinned food
hygienic and tasteless
parasitic worms
scurvy ticks lice
deserted township
after sunset
consensual curfew
back to the island
back on the island
sound of the blizzard
from the west
distant neighbours
from a distance
keep the distance
experience
of reality
keeps a body going
in relation to this wind
in relation to the sun
the days which lasts for weeks
the week that lasts a minute
this invented person
this one that you constructed
right here on this island
step off from the island
if this is an island
if there is free movement
to another island
another bastard island
can’t take your eyes off
what you can’t understand
words out of context
hang in mid-air
random connections
defy explanation
this story, for example
that I’m about to tell
that I’m going to try to tell
to tell you…
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8. |
Interior Night
04:08
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Steven Ball London, UK
Steven Ball has been working as an artist since the early 1980s, in film, video, sound, installation, and performance, and has been a member of the post-punk DIY group Storm Bugs. In 2014 he started writing and recording songs as a solo project, being particularly concerned with experimenting with which kinds of texts might constitute a song lyric. ... more
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