From: radhika <radhika-AT-cyberdiva.org>
Subject: RE: (no subject)
Date: 	Mon, 12 Jun 2000 07:15:31 -0400


an extension of 
cultural
linguistic

        ambush

bytes consuming minds

bit by bit

assuring my virtual complicity

luring me with material

                this "space" created for my
"speech"

(you can "speak" now, you poor soul, you...)

and these "spaces" of absences and lacks

where millions
lag
be
hind
structures

set up in their absences

(for your own good)

                this "space" where I can have a voice again

after the strangling of my singing voice 
my vocal chords

that re
fuse
virtually
still further into this linguistic/cultural sphere

vocal chords
un
practised
for almost a decade
even the remnants of tunes and rhythms

as they play on cds and websites
in cars 
coasting along turnpikes

eternally roaming....
and the bytes search for bytes

waves seek out voices

that no longer exist

frozen in fetishized virtuality

the gophers dig for 
voices
of the undead
dying repeatedly...



        

At 10:46 AM 6/12/00 +0530, you wrote:
>
>
> sitting at guruji's feet 
>
>'there's a tribe that's forbidden music during the harvest months
>
>they cant stop when they hear the drums..they go on and on...
>
>children at play, women at work, men on the fields..
>
>listen to the drums
>
>and dance    
>
>and dance'
>
>sitting in a studio, listening to digital music...
>
>on headphones
>
>my voiceand mymusic
>
>not my own anymore...but little lights and knobs in somebody else's hands
>
>dig-
>
>it-
>
>alised-
>
>'we'll add the drums later' 
>
>i shut my eyes...and hear the drums in my head
>
>living my music too
>
>in virtual reality.....
>
>
>
>>like grave yards
>
>>the links that go nowhere
>
>>never lead elsewhere
>
>>silent graveyards built in impossibilities
>
>>rip
>
>>through the speech
>
>
>>ancient URLs
>
>>...
>
>>virtual ashes
>
>>bytes unto bytes
>--
>
>
>
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Radhika Gajjala
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http://www.cyberdiva.org/stuff.html
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