The Equivocaliser

Some of you have been asking for the "didactic text" that I did to launch the Kitab and then Sarai open mikes, so here it is (scroll to the bottom of this post). It's a prose piece for performance with a bell.
It's interesting to think about what kinds of bells could be used. Anne Waldman's book, Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble, has poems with gong sounds in them that are marked in the text by gong symbols of different sizes, indicating volume...

Well, I've been exhorted, and I've been exhorted, but I still can't quite get my head around the idea of being comfortable in a blog. I'm no neo-luddite, I promise you, but somehow the blog format seems at the moment too restrictive, too wedded to linear...

[This was the invitation for lines for the performance, "What Have You Heard?" conducted by Sophea Lerner and myself. I collected these lines by walking around with a clipboard during the Khoj performance festival and convincing people to sit down and...

[A follow up posting with some more detailed thoughts on the experiment is here. The invitation that started this scheme off is here. The poem that was performed is here.]
I’m sorry it’s taken so long to put this all together—we pushed ourselves a little towards the end in getting the performance (which happened last Friday, March 28) together, and since then, apart from taking a little while to recover from the exhaustion...