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Respect for the Medium

by They Became What They Beheld

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Snoozlemoo
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Snoozlemoo My friend. Comrade? We seek out the music that makes us feel good, connects us with others, pacifies the mind and its obsessions with connection and individuality.
We fail.
Respect for the Medium makes me think, it makes me look at myself in a mental mirror, forcing me to connect with myself. "Music" that forces you to connect with yourself is terrifying.
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mathulhu69 red and green dusks
strange happenstance etiology
is the sun frozen in time?
i wonder
as minutes turn to tomorrow
and dreams fade to light
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mat sunrise viewed from depth.
a pinhole of light flickers.
in the darkness, hope.
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The fundamental audio loop is more Gabrieli.

The DV tape loop is from Fireflies & Fields, a deeply personal series shot straight out of camera. Summer, 2009. Just after sunset. "Night Mode" enabled camera on a tripod facing south-south-east. Fairfield Road a bit to my back and right. A solid two-minute hike across the prairie to touch the first oaks in the shot. Macro lens on. Optical zoom maxed. Digital zoom zero. The key: auto-focus enabled to force the beacons into a duel until dawn. The loop you see employs neither dissolve nor crossfade. It is the same hard cut over and over until the song ends. After originally releasing a zoomed and cropped version at 1920x1080, I have decided to delete and repost at 720x480. Once you see the Taraxacum mote ascending you will never unsee it.

The artwork is also from Fireflies & Fields, also straight out of camera.

These sorts of things are important to me.

Respect for the medium.

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released April 22, 2024

Shout out to DJJJS for wishing for Celer length tracks from me.

Thanks to ... who sold me a ... tape deck so I could not continue this ... original tape deck ... airplane hanger ... the pandemic and everything stalled out for so long ... of the incident ... then ... project changed ... else did, that was closer to ... different now. Thanks to my dad for showing ... when I was a kid. Thanks to Sage for ... two close friends who talked ... Thanks to Emily for finding this strange book ... her audience of one. Thanks to the Adriance Memorial Library for ... to Hippo Books who succeeded in diverting it from a landfill ... library sustainability and ... global problem ...

About text, icon, and name sourced from They Became What They Beheld written by Edmund Snow Carpenter, photographed by Ken Heyman, designed by Hess and/or Antupit, 1970.

Audio sourced from Giovanni Gabrieli's Sanctus: VI. Hosanna in excelsis broadcast by KUSC 91.5 and recorded by iPhone, 2020.

Photographs & video loops from my personal series Fireflies & Fields, 2009.

Engineered by Tyler Etters, 2009 — 2024.

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