The opera is about a dialogue I am having that must be externalized from my self (from my senses or conceptions?) In order to be heard, to comprehend the voice that is speaking. The process of living in the procession of the opera, the space in between. I must remember to continue documenting! Its the documentation that will comprise the content, all the myriad minutiae that I keep fumbling over. Everything else is just an abstraction... All this writing, all these images, the sculpture or stage settings. The content of this work is me and my sense of self and the permutations of that unstable form through some subjective speculations of a novel space-time. Take all the vocabulary and put it to a list, I still must remember to speak. Daily exercises in speaking, starting immediately! The walking and the talking will produce energy so that I am no longer confined to a specific working environment or creative time of day! Break through. Wherever I can speak into a recorder is where I can begin accumulating content for the opera, and it will accumulate! The only limitation will be my own bodily energy and I certainly know how to attend to that. Put an end to sedentary lifestyle for the sake of an activated psyche.

This should be the proposal for the Organ Mountains residency: walks, looking, finding, accumulating, presenting. A revisionist natural history towards a new ontology of/for known & unknowable un-i-verses.

Everything else is research. Accumulate it and put it all together! Stop watching movies and start looking into all the lost crevices of time. It's experience that is being accumulated, so wasted time is wasted experience. Stop making preparations for a life to be lived and begin living this one, now.

I'm reluctant to use video because it brings the attention deeper into the self. Tthe media permeates the senses, synesthetic experience, but its artificial: cybernetic, based in control. I'm interested in a dynamic expression of freedom, not the control and manipulation.

Assemble more orchestras, dance troops, temporary stages. Put out a call for untrained participants in every city I inhabit, begin making relationships with real perspectives and be forced out of the subjective abstraction. Write real scores that can be played by real musicians (or at least would-be performers with instruments) and write real choreographies for real movements that are filmed. Design stage settings and make digital models of how they would be. Design sculptures, either with found objects of collage techniques. Design posters with diagrams, intriguing words, images, etc, that will attract would-be performers. Put them up at universities, music stores, art galleries, book stores. Infiltrate the communities. Publish the writings as zines and distribute the printed matter. Get the fucking website underway so that people can see what I'm up to. Keep recording the music and put it online. Make images, photograph sculptures, be prolific! Write copious content! All this writing is preamble, preparatory research towards an opera but not the opera itself. Stage 1 is the prologue, the preparatory work: required being at the edge of the known universe in order to observe and articulate it. Stage 2 will begin with the first scene which must be enacted and thoroughly documented, and this is what will begin in NM signaling a return back to the known-as-unknowable or the defamiliarization of civilization.