and the ability to rectify them. Transcendence of mind over mundane routine, to hit to the source of inspiration, to spread infectious inspiration in others, to arouse creativity rather than contempt, to cultivate higher ideals and avoid reveling in the shit of existence. Every art has its principles of craft, method, attention and awareness, sensitivity to the "materials" at hand: handmind; the corporeal sense outside of and alongside the rational/intellectual sense. There is a theory of communication and then there is the heat of the moment.

___'s plight for happiness. The delicate balance between capitalized labor and hedonistic pleasure spawned from freedom = limits are concerned with applied attention, area of the will, self-determined freedom, i.e. Spiritual values. Juxtaposed to the monetary labors producing material wealth and imagined "comforts". Different definitions of "thriving" in each form of labor, divergent priorities for what is considered essential.

ACH: new perspectives in narrative storytelling, serves as a model for ambiguous character development, song structure, outline for archetypal stage design. Stage: 1. This world 2. That world 3. The "hinge", transitional space in between. Moveable platforms that can be rearranged or else floor drawings delineating projections of space-time-action::era-area-aria.

The meditation found in work: painting the bathroom, sweeping the floor (of the temple, ashram, home), carefully painting, scrubbing the sink. The qualitative difference between adding or subtracting material. The ritual of domestic housekeeping: sundays are a day of worship, no longer to a sky deity, now to the earthen beings or the earth itself, or perhaps the Self directly of the home is considered an extension of the physical body under capitalism (materialism) or psychic territory (affect of inhabitable space). Cleaning the home is cleaning the mind: to free oneself of clutter and learn to focus upon the hearth, the seat of consciousness, the root of sentience: a practice of mindfulness of oneself-in-relation. Respect for ones own environment, ritual cleansing to "make space" for extra-ordinary activities beyond the filth of daily existence: a sacred space (defined not by holy beings but by the removal, the void, the "other place" beyond reach of public view). Home is closed, sealed, safe and "comfortable": thriving space. It can also be opened, a space for opening, others invited in to make, to converse, to incubate relations: a gift of shared environmental consideration, the opportunity should be used mindfully.

Designs for textural synthesizers, spectrograph modulation units, amplified weather chambers, aleatoric simulators. Also in reverse: room sized microphones made from giant sheets of piezo copper or aluminum to capture the orgone resonance of a dancer, their displacement of atmosphere in the era-area, or the imperceptible movements of the space itself. Like a ribbon microphone, picking up extremely low architectural-scale frequencies. Research: capturing neutrinos with a super collider/partial accelerator, capturing space radiation with the very large array in NM, visualizing materials with cymatics - granulated earth vibrating on metallic plates. String tensioning through the room: Ellen Fullman: using the body to dictate the sonic-texture-space = ___ able to compose to the instruments I install & ___ about to recite Arabic poetry into microphones I build and modulate & ___ bowing the room with suspension lattice.

Remembering the conversation with ___: blue collar sensibilities. Classism of the mind.