TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED VELOCITY

Mcluan: hot+cold media applied to quaternary of alchemy = for each media involvement in the opera (text, sound, etc).

Joyce: applied language for how to write the content of the opera

Remember ___'s technique: record the conversation and transcribe the book! = a nice variation on the cut-up.

Write more letters to people, to dig out the content through virtual conversation. Have more actual conversations, to dig out the virtual contents!

Living in Iceland = the edge of the known

Returning to NM = the center of the known

Where is the unknowable? Where is the orientation? Observe the shifting of the (my) perspective through the migration of physical space / time.

Maybe I am the one with the Oedipus complex = relationship to father/mother/self

-apply other psychological theories of self for mapping techniques

-look at the visualization tactics for writers outlining their works: Henry Miller, James Joyce, etc.

Daily iphone recordings: in the face, in the mirror, in the private and public spaces. Record the voice while driving, record the body while moving, "frame" the mind in various degrees of thinking-itself-into-being. Get a more robust portable camera rig? Body mount for first person perspective? (How does the camera presence change the potentials/possibilities of conversation?)

Let the dialogue write itself through the process of living and "reverse-engineer" the script of the would-be opera. Let the music play itself through the process of improvisation and reverse-engineer the notation. Let the movements perform themselves naturally through daily movements, the embodiment of various affects and sensations (use Massumi to further define this terminology) and reverse-engineer the notation that charts the paths. Let the video document its own becoming and reverse-engineer the documentation to form the video scroll. *All of this amounts to a common assertion: let the action lead and the rational rumination pick up the pieces. Lead with the body and work it out afterwards. Act first and apologize later!

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