Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

I saw a sort of fat bottle, like a pot with a narrow mouth. I think it was made of clay and it was covered with little pieces of mirrors. When it reflected the light, each little mirror of the pot gave forth a particular image. Everything around it found in it a singular reflection and, at the same time, the whole resembled a rainbow of images. It was as if many small histories came together to compose a larger history, but without losing their own distinct self. I thought that, perhaps, the history of the EZLN could be told, looked at, and analyzed like that mirrored pot. Subcomandante Marcos Special thanks to CBC Radio One's Tapestry , with Mary Hynes and guest host Jian Ghomeshi, for their talk with Toni-Lynn Blackman (sp?), and Pink Floyd's The Great Gig In The Sky .

So by making this connection with Eliot and the idea of bricolage, via Northrop Frye, Jack Saturday is placing his work in the tradition of modernist art, which tends (amongst other things) to exchange the more purely and intensely personal insights of the Romantics for a fragmentary arrangement or collage of disparate voices, viewpoints and styles. But he also offers another quote, from the politically radical "news dissector", television producer and independent filmmaker Danny Schechter, who in turn quotes the Canadian filmmaker Peter Wintonick: Filmmaker Peter Wintonick (Manufacturing Consent and other films) calls on all media workers to promote the new digital revolution. He calls for a fight against the "apocalyptic, mega-media locusts; old Hollywood; old Fictive Fantasy; Old Reality; Old News: Old World, Old Vision; Old In-humedia: Old Disembodied corporate dreams." He wants a "multi-logue" not a monologue. And so do many of us. Edward Picot...

Literature continues in society the tradition of myth-making, and myth-making has a quality that Levi-Strauss calls bricolage , a putting together of bits and pieces of whatever comes to hand. Long before Levi-Strauss, T.S. Eliot in an essay on Blake uses practically the same image, speaking of Blake's resourceful Robinson Crusoe method of scrambling together a system of thought out of the odds and ends of his reading... I soon realized that Blake was a typical poet in this regard. Northrop Frye, intro. to The Great Code

Like an archipelago, this seemingly disconnected string of islands is all connected beneath the surface. Douglas Rushkoff

We're holding a class here-- beneath the school.

Extraordinary Discourse 001 Hello everyone. I offer a thought adventure, around an hour a week. It is eclectic, multi-voiced, many-themed, but the central theme is Play. I collected and produced audio since my first tape recorder around 1963. The power of spoken word and voice. Digital audio came my way around 1998.  Digitizing and cleaning up my analog collection--reels and cassettes-- took years, meanwhile I hunted and gathered and cherry-picked through audio media online. The highlighter deciding what cherries to take or texts to envoice came from extraordinary experiences around age 30. Two of the greatest creative aspects of digital audio were the shuffle, and real silence. I gathered useful entertainment for thinkers and seekers for 30 years, in clip form. Utterance jewels. Figurines of speech. I made associational documentaries, some of which I will deliver here later on. For this project, Extraordinary Discourse , I tried to automate creative possib...