Thankyou for your continued support of my art, everyone! Do you ever wake at dawn to listen to the wisdom of the birds? If so, what do they say to you? Please share in the comments. I cherish reading your words.
Lately whenever I\u2019m having a hard moment, if I see or hear a bird, I am immediately snapped back into presence. I truly feel like the birds are communicating with me, whispering their sweet somethings. I took some time recently to imagine what the birds are actually trying to tell me, and wrote it down and recorded the audio to share with you. Enjoy.
We sing after the storm. We sing during it. We sing through the blizzard. We sing through the percussion of the hail. We sing through the lightning. We harmonize with the thunder. What are you doing with your vocal chords? Why on earth are your eyes still closed? It\u2019s dawn and our song is on your Aspen tree\u2019s radio. Feather your hair and get out here with your high notes, hot stuff. Why stay in bed when you could be high-fiving the sunrise? Human awe is an endangered species. Do not let your astonishment go extinct. Go wild for the wildness of your being. Sing off key and call it a yet-to-be-invented note. Why are you acting like a birdcage caught your heart? No matter what hurts, love yourself enough to never think your ribcage is locked. Just because your life isn\u2019t a piece of cake doesn\u2019t mean it can\u2019t be sweet. We know you\u2019ve been taught the opposite, but for goodness sakes, think your own thoughts. Don\u2019t be a parrot on the world\u2019s shoulder. Ask new questions. What do I have in common with the person I judge most? Why is loving someone who doesn\u2019t love me back a sad tune? Isn\u2019t the one who loves, the one who is lucky? Consider the possibility that no one can break your trust. It\u2019s your trust, after all. No one else\u2019s. Write this down with a feather pen: My emotions are doors opened by my willingness to feel them. You can feel sad without chaining yourself to sadness. You can feel fear without believing fear is the truth. If that feels difficult at first, just wing it. (That\u2019s our motto. Just wing it.) It is absolutely possible to make a nest of a hurricane. To make a clearing of the fog. Ask yourself, \u201CWhat love can I make of this loss?\u201D Humans, remember, are nightshades. They grow in the dark. Does that mean you are made by your pain? No. Does that mean you are made by your decision to turn your pain into medicine for the world? No. You are made by knowing that you can\u2019t be made or unmade. Understand who you are without your beliefs about who you should be. Stop clipping the wings of life\u2019s magic. Beneath your running mind is a heart that knows that kind of exercise is ridiculous. Every day is a great day to hatch wonder. Rubble the walls between yourself and everyone until you\u2019re sure the scenes of strangers' lives will pass before your eyes when you die. If that doesn't make sense right now, it will one morning, when you wake at sunrise, walk out to your porch, and see a flock of ten thousand starlings circling above your head. There I am, you\u2019ll think, looking up at us. There I am.
\u25B3 I had a wonderful conversation with the tender hearted and brilliant writer, that left me feeling so inspired. The conversation was released in three parts which you can find below:
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Very special thanks to Catharine A. MacKinnon, Melissa Farley with Prostitution Research & Education, and John Stoltenberg. Special appreciation also to Sara--for her sisterhood and her generous support; without it this work would not exist. Special thanks also to Milla Ahola for her enthusiasm and hard work. Others crucial support for this library archive include the generous generous financial donations and meticulous labor from John V. Burke (in honor of Naomi Weisstein), Diana S, Katherine Muhm, Marcia Cohn Spiegel, Maria Teresa Park, Robert Brannon, Beth Ribet, Elliott batTzedek, Stephanie Cleveland, Catherine Veitch, Laurel Long, Cookie Teer, Ann Simonton, Andrea Clark, Anita A, Linda Steele, Michael Moorcock, Helen Caddes, Jodi Glass, Sarah Ingram, Julian Real, Lierre Keith, Richard Schicke, Dee Golder, Laura Colbert, Lynn Comerford, Kacy Silverstein
Montreal Speech, (43 min, 128 Kbps, mp3) 1991--We've been working on this speech off and on since 2001 (when I didn't even know what an mp3 file was), working from a very poor quality copy of a copy that was difficult to listen to due to horrible background noises because it was the only file that was available. The original of this file has been lost and thanks to Diana. who worked on it for weeks and a very skilled movie sound person who devoted countless hours of his expertise and labor, we now have an excellent version of this speech.
This will go on the Montreal summary page: It is no small feat that this speech is being presented online. When I first visited Nikki Craft, I lived in New Orleans. She invited me to go to Houston with her and attend a speech given by Andrea Dworkin and even spend some time with Andrea and Michael Moorcock after her speech. Andrea was powerful and truthful, in spite of her visibly declining health. Later, Nikki asked me to listen to a tape recording of a much ealier speech she had given in Montreal in the wake of the Marc Lepine shootings. I was stunned. The written versions of her speeches collected in the book Life and Death never conveyed the awesome power of her message the way her voice did. But the quality of the recording made it impossible to offer it to the public. Neither of us had any audio experience, but we jury-rigged a confused knot of cables to digitize it, adding plenty of static. I labored with video editing software, for days and weeks trying to modulate the volume and get rid of the noise while preserving her voice, and no choice was good. Nikki had previously sent the original tape to someone else who was supposed to clean it up and unfortunately the tape was lost. Meanwhile I got pregnant and had a baby, so the project was on hold. When I was strong enough again to get back to finishing it, we had to evacuate for this storm named Katrina, and left the only CD copy in my house, which flooded. That was the last recording of that speech anyone had and I assumed it was gone for good. My partner traveled back to New Orleans to assess the damage, and he brought back a plastic box of stuff he salvaged. In the box was Andrea's speech! I finished what I could. Still, the result was not up to par so I asked my dear friend who is an audio genius, and he worked his magic on it. Presto: the Montreal speech. He managed to bring her out of the shadows, into her glory. If you had heard what he had to start with, you'd never imagine it could be done. I'd say he's the protagonist of this story. --Diana, September 1, 2006 (Andrea Clark is transcribing this speech.)
transmitter2ears is a live performance/installation with two parabolic speakers, binaural microphones, radio transmission and a synthesizer. Together they form an audio-feedback loop, open to the sounds of the environment. A performer/musician equipped with binaural microphones, is interacting with the audio-field of the highly directive speakers. In the performance, Lanzmaier and Ziler and their collaborators actively blur the lines between performer, listener, musician and landscape, turning the whole ecosystem of the site into an instrument. The sounds picked up by the binaural microphones provide an audio stream from the "perspective" of the performer which will be broadcasted for the radio audience on WGXC 90.7-FM and
wavefarm.org/listen.
Andreas Ziler and Fabian Lanzmaier are transdisciplinary artists based in Vienna. Coming from different backgrounds (architecture, fine arts, and sound/music) they share an interest in sound and its relation to space. Recently, they have collaborated on different site specific installations, working with feedback systems, parabolic sound reflectors, and spatial audio.
go to command prompt (Run>Cmd) and then direct it to your GTA Folder for me this is "cd C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\GTA San Andreas" but without quotes. in comand prompt type this : saat_stream -e audio\streams** c:\temp\saat Keep this open because we will need it later. Where ** is type the name of the radio station you want to edit E.G CH
Okay, now that you have your radio station extracted you need to replace the sounds with custom ones. Now say you want to replace Warm it up kane from PlayBack you can either open Warm It Up Kane(Mid).Ogg and replace it with the WHOLE of your custom song and have Warm it up kane(Intro, 1&2 and Outro 1&2) with a blank sound, Or you could split the song into parts the exact length of the original GTA parts.
Now we have to import the custom songs into GTA. To do this go back to Command Prompt and type this: saat_stream -i audio\streams** c:\temp\saat**\stream_import.ini audio\CONFIG\TrakLkup.dat Where ** is type the name of the radio station you want to edit E.G CH Now just hold your breath and hope it works x] if you have any problems just coment and ill try to help you wink.gif
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