aleatory

Aleatory
from wikipedia
Aleatory means "pertaining to luck", and derives from the Latin word alea, the rolling of dice.

Aleatoric, indeterminate, or chance art is that which exploits the principle of randomness.

Literature
An example of aleatory writing is the automatic writing of the French Surrealists involving dreams, et cetera.

Music
Main article: Aleatoric music
Pierre Boulez applied the term aleatoric music to his own pieces to distinguish them from the indeterminate music of John Cage, though both are often described as aleatory. While Boulez purposefully composed his pieces to allow the performer certain liberties with regard to the sequencing and repetition of parts, Cage often composed through the application of chance operations without allowing the performer liberties. Another prolific aleatory music composer is Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Film
In film-making, there are several avant-garde examples; Fred Camper's SN (1984; first screening 2002) uses coin-flipping to determine which three of 18 possible reels to screen and what order they should go in (4896 permutations). Barry Salt, now better known as a film scholar, is known to have made a film, Permutations, seven reels long which takes the word aleatory quite literally by including a customized die for the projectionist to roll to determine the reel order (5040 permutations).

hazel and digipouf

poet

according to wikipedia - which is my new favorite thing online right now - "Perhaps no other occupation demands so much thought for so little output. In the Japanese haiku tradition involves production of seventeen syllable poems. Even in other traditions including thousand-line poems, a poet's total lifetime output might fill only two or three volumes. For this reason, poets occupy a peculiar position in society, even when compared to other artists, tending to reside on the fringes of their culture. Even poets who have achieved prominence within their tradition can remain completely unknown in the world at large."

where the "i" came from?...part one

i just came across a wonderful bunch of posts called vegan ice cream paradise or something, and it made me feel a renewed sense of purpose.

it made me realize that none of us are extraordinary (human beings that is) and in general we've not done the best for ourselves or our living environments (see: war...) but despite the fact, each individual person is all they have.

the individual is a strange commodity, vied for by all corporate interests and small businesses alike. the individual, let's call her/him "i" for short,...

cleaning out the site, the space clears

i am overhauling my site so that it is more navigable and less esoteric

i remember a time when i was dutifully searching for enlightenment, and tho slightly delirious, i do think i was more clear in many ways.

so, here i go again. an optimistics more than uphill climb to some nothing in the sky, but philosophy and the earth are all i've got.