experiment No. 1

RUMMAGING FOR WORDS IN THE CHAOS-STATIC OF DISCORDANCE

start with collective release — we all speak at once, reading or singing from poems, journal entries, songs of ours, etc. until the room becomes discordant with sound.

then we start flooding the senses with external auditory stimulus like a speech - the news - audio book - podcast - old film dialogue - radio station - guided meditation - video lecture about the big bang - song

listen closely to what Discordance has to say. gather words & phrases from the noise and from your inner monologue and sensations too. these are your field notes, your word bank. pay attention to what this does to your attention.

this is what dreaming does to our minds when we sleep. our sleeping bodies inundate our senses with stimulus. electric shapes and symbols. with the purpose of watering out everything that isn’t potent and significant enough to be discernible and prod out from the water.

in this experiment, we are doing the same. noticing & creating from what shines through the over-saturation. overflooding our senses so that we are forced to only look at what is bright enough to discern.

it’s like this we crack open the subconscious and enter the Poem.