circo by sevenism

had to go to church as a teenager even though i no longer believed.
one time they played a tape of 'angels' - it couldnt be humans because the frequencies were too high
i found this hilarious because they were always banging on about faith not needing proof and because i listened to a lot of rave with squeaky vocals - the sense of the ecstatic merely pitchshifted and chemical.

in fact i used to sneak in my walkman with the earphone hid up my sleeve; hand on bored cheek; i was probably listening to hardcore at the time.

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i like Michael K. Bourdaghs' translation of this haiku by Takarai Kikaku :

The full autumn moon
on this straw mat
pine tree shadow

. . . .

this led me to:

As a fine horse gallops
20,000 poems are houseflies
scattered in the wind

[Written to commemorate Ihara Saikaku's composition of 23,500 poems on a single day in 1684, with Kikaku in attendance.]

( https://web.archive.org/web/20070716125325/http://www.nycbigcitylit.com/feb2004/contents/poetrybourdaghs.html )

the idea of doing at least 1000 haiku an hour night and day, so 16 a minute, is absurd. it appeals to me coz i like making a lot of music but the point is still that i want to make good music not just churn out whatever.

Tracklist

1.	sq7	7:17

2.	pine tree shadow	8:37

3.	harpt	9:41

4.	circcokamik	10:07

5.	autumn moon	6:37

6.	halfmoon coda	0:54

7.	qexxmrk4	8:07

8.	offwhite	7:47

9.	zamiz	20:14

Credits

released June 1, 2020

License

CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.