Body Text Music[k]

»in honorem sanctae crucis [de laudibus sanctae crucis]« by rabanus maurus (780–856)

The long sleeves of Stelarc’s black jacket conceal the notorious “Ear on Arm” project, in which a “biocompatible scaffold” was surgically inserted into his left forearm in 2006, creating the shape of an ear in an arduous ongoing process.

“At present it’s only a relief of an ear,” Stelarc said. “When the ear becomes a more 3-D structure we’ll reinsert the small microphone that connects to a wireless transmitter.” In any Wi-Fi hotspot, he said, it will become internet-enabled. “So if you’re in San Francisco and I’m in London, you’ll be able to listen in to what my ear is hearing, wherever you are and wherever I am.”

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One Stanza

humbles me; the antipodean

in me

cries out for the comfort now

of a meatcheeseshake sealed 

“If I paint a color I don’t like, I don’t change it. I try to modify it by the next line, or something that comes down lower. So, in some weird way I see it as a form of jazz. Improvisation. You can’t take back a note, but you can play a note later on that makes that note the right note. That’s the game.”