I experimented tonight with applying my voicebox to the hollow body of my acoustic guitar and humming. Holding the guitar, vibrating your larynx against wood which in turn vibrates sympathetically… suddenly you can feel the way your voice sounds in your hands. You can feel the color vibrations change from note to note as electrical impulses in your hands. Rewiring the senses. Replacing habitual usepaths with new patterns which over time become new usepaths. Are there actions, like atomic structures, which are more conducive for energetic currents to pass through? There must be. Perhaps this is where ritual comes from.
With Monument City, I feel like we’re invoking some sort of primitive geomantic ritualism. Sacred visitation of holy sites dedicated to gods and ancestors revitalized by our constant comings and goings, our interest and observation. At the Battle Monument, I found out today, the female figure who stands at the top, they refer to her as Lady Baltimore. She’s not an allegory. She’s a deity.
I left my first rock CD at another local animist entity recently, one surrounded by a bush of thorns. A small boy holding a violin, the Spirit of Music. Blood Sugar Sex Magick was the first music CD I ever owned. I traded it with my friend, John Paul, for my second issue of the comic book Wolverine. The contents of that CD astonished, amazed, mesmerized and scandalized me as a youth. I wonder what the Spirit of Music will think.
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I’m getting into Baltimore more because of your descriptions. Cities need love too.
You might like these links to maps.
http://www.metafilter.com/79385/We-mightve-done-this-before-but-better
Hallo.
I’ve been slowly calling up elemental spirits here in San Francisco. There are several locations here that make excellent sites for contacting the powers of the four earthly elements. So far, Water, Earth and Air have made themselves apparent, I’m still on a quest for Fire.
I have been following your work for a while, and am quite pleased to see that there others like me blending psychogeography with animism and sussing out the songlines of cities.
I was a bike messenger for a long time and many of the understandings I have gained of the ways that cities interact with us as entities comes from having spent lots of time traveling by bicycle in a semi-trance, seeing and hearing through the veil while dodging cars for survival units.
I look forward to someday meeting you, if you happen through my town please contact me via email and I’ll gladly show you around, that is if you haven’t already got a good idea of the place to begin with.
Namaste,
Khephret
This book waited for me in a book store for slightly over three years. When I read this on your reaseach site I knew it sounded familar. It’s highly recommended by me too.
http://theabysmal.wordpress.com/2006/07/15/i-ching-hexagram-29/
Thanks K, would enjoy meeting up SF sometime, though I’m not sure I’ve got the biking chops yet to bike around out there after what I’ve heard!