The Moat Describes Its Castle
The next installment in the 'Resynthesis' series. Another requiem for isolationist foreign policy.
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Story behind the song
This piece more directly addresses the concepts of conceptually significant resynthesis as well as extending into concepts of radio and noise. While being neither a work of "radio art" nor "noise art", I explore the same basic materials as "Personal Flowers" (the first in the series), but in this piece the warm radio silence is situated as the casing around the radio address. I explore the idea of taking one source material and transforming it into another target material. This "resynthesis" is explored and exposed not in a linear fashion but rather by means of musical structures and sound objects that evolve, dissntegrate, and contextualize each other. I am also interested in exploring certain aspects of language, epecially non syntactic speech versus historically situated speech. The sounds produced by my voice, performed in the context of a poem about isolation in its manifestations of local, state, and national contexts is found to bleed into the sound of radio silence / tape hiss, which situates FDR's 1941 "A day which will live in infamy" speech. The speech itself decomposes into sinewaves, impulses and noise, which are reconstituted as musical figures, a sort of "primordial soup" from which emerges mutants of the three contexts: poetic / word-sound, syntactic / historical, and abstract / musical.
Lyrics
I mean an indivisible unit that stands isolated from its syntax,
A discrete set of bounds
Defined by or related to only those walls:
The moat describes its caste.
Defined by or related to other particles only in their solitude,
Pay strict adherence to a policy of non-involvement,
Unflinchingly guarded by a series of learned fences,
Decay, resembling the rhododendrons of personality.
I mean an indivisible unit that stands isolated from its syntax.
