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Swimming (Waves of Experience)
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The hard crust of reality begins to soften around the edges, and time melts like a Dali pocket watch.
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An electronic base with spoken word (personal abstractions with a mind to realizing the personal is political), singing and general experimentation...
The madman creative output began in early childhood and has continued unabated since. In particular, the last decade has been quite an interesting one. Marking a gradual emergence and exploration into a number of creative mediums. In the early 90s, the madman first really started tinkering with recorded audio. Having only primitive tools to work with, he developed the technique of "sound wrestling"- by covering the erase head of a tape recorder, he was able to layer sound on a single strip of tape, creating sound spaces with found sound, spoken word, ambient recordings, whatever he could get into/out of the machines. At the same time he was developing an archive of drawings and writing that served as the source material as well as the catalyst in the creation of the self published zine, "Say What", which currently has 6 issues available. Into the mid 90s, WEBmadman met up with JLBlank (of Convertible Robots) ...on a bench outside a bank late at night... From that meeting a number of projects and ongoing collaborations ensued. Back then they got together with Rock n Roll Nate and did a little thing called S.O.I.L.. It was at that point that the madman realized he could do more than just speak with his voice... By the late 90s, and into the early 00s the madman had cracked into digital composition and recording, as had JLBlank, each in their own way, resulting in the This Collective release, "Machine Noise Dreaming". Since then, the madman has worked up a series of solo releases, starting with Dark Cheese, followed by Liquid Thought, and The Madman Chronicles. From all of this, the madman has been able to do a number of live performances, 2 events, TechNoBondAge (Maynooth, Ontario) and Zero (Toronto) with the Hijack collective, a group whos members include: Original Plastic, Convertible Robots and Arzoo Dance. Hes also done performances at the Killaloe Fair (Killaloe), Poetica (Toronto), and done interviews and performances on CHCR (Killaloe) and CFFF (Peterborough) The performance of "Point of Release" by This Collective at the Zero show with Hijack was aired on the CBC television show ZeD, on October of 2002. Most recently WEBmadman has been seen lurking with the noise band Full Metal Booty in Peterborough... WEBmadman also does Tarot readings and workshops and is webmaster of a few sites.
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Genre
Alternative Indie
Charts
Peak #1,518
Peak in subgenre #259
Author
WEBmadman
Rights
2001
Uploaded
October 06, 2004
Track Files
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MP3 2.6 MB 128 kbps 0:00
Lyrics
The hard crust of reality begins to soften around the edges, and time melts like a Dali pocket watch. Shapes flickering behind the things around me. Memories of what was projecting through to the possiblities of what may be, the present becomes a falcrum, a point of uncertain clarity. Reality- a liquid, impossible to hold with the hands of reason, but I can swirl ripples through this pond, swim through the waves of experience, I can cup my hands, draw this water up to the lips of my perception, drink deep, emerge and see the ocean around me, gaze upward to the sky, and dream the blue so deep within. I feel the other souls around me, some are like dolphins, they teach me to swim with vigor and joy. Others flounder, splashing frantically, I feel panic and the paradoxical compulsion to both help and flee, sometimes I help, sometimes I flee. I begin to recognize rafts and boats around me, they are stitched of souls intent, the will born of passion, a fire to behold. I am part of some, I know now, and can relax a bit, let myself drift and know that I will not drown. I can also feel a fulfillment knowing I have saved some others from drowning, just by being as I am. And here is the pearl, the purpose (porpoise), in being, my ripples caress the infinite in circles drifting outward. I am not alone in this ocean, and bridges are easiest built with others in mutual fulfillment towards being together joined, riding the waves. I have learned to swim by realizing I've known how all along, I just had moments of forgetting, I remember now, can you?
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