Short summary

Hello. I feel like I can't continue to have an internet existence without filling in certain holes in this narrative, mundane and over as things may be. Much time has passed, and many things are new. My life has organized itself around the organizing of concerts:

• House concerts have happened at the La Casa Co-op House (in Urbana) in February, March, and April. These have been working as venues for presenting performances of mostly original compositions in various performance media - song, spoken work, theatre, puppetry - made largely by the community of people constituting/surrounding the School for Designing a Society in Urbana. The next one will be either June 6th or 7th.
• The As-If Ensemble of Urbana (A.I.E.O.U.) played a fundraiser concert for the Gesundheit! Institute on April Fools Day at the Iron Post (in Urbana).
• The American Society for Cybernetics just had their annual conference in Urbana, and there was an evening of performances last Tuesday. I helped to organize, played udderbot on Five by Philip Schuessler, and put on an original puppet show with Braden Elliott entitled One Conversational Atlas. The program note read:

One Conversational Atlas will have been an attempt to apply some of the crucial distinctions made by Maturana (and others) in The Tree of Knowledge (and elsewhere) to the domain of the practice of languaging in everyday life. When the usual distinctions of everyday conversation are sufficiently useful to us, this can look like useless nitpicking. When they touch a root of howling undesirability, however, they can sometimes suggest a path to Save The World With A More Rigorous Logical Accounting. Usually our circularity reflexes prove too ticklish, spasming us into oblivion.

• I spent two weeks in Houston. The primary reason was to put on the Seventeen Tone Piano Project Phase Four: Microtonal Song Showcase on May 1, though I also got to sing some rounds with An Exciting Event and play some udderbot at the Artery.

The near future is jam packed with similar projects, but, I hope, they will not burn me out in the way I am currently burnt out.

This winter/spring I read a lot of Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff, a lot of Tales of Neveryon by Samuel Delany, and finished The Tree of Knowledge by Humberto Maturana. I just picked up Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks.

I also began a project of exchanging poetry assignments with Andrew Heathwaite. Join in the fun!