I am in my room.
In my writing studio.
In front of my computer.
Why am I doing this? Out of
habit, and loyalty to my readers.
I enjoy doing it. I enjoy hearing back
from people I consider discerning. I like
to think of myself as belonging to a tradition.
The Point and Shoot correspondent of Ray Johnson’s
to How To Draw a Bunny. I refer you to “David Zack's
Correspondense with Peter Horobin.”
The quality of the audio is erratic suggesting that Zack
was using a cheap battery-powered tape machine with a low quality
cassette. There is a buzziness to his
vocals possibly caused by a faulty external mic connection or the manual input
control being turned too far up. His
spontaneous energetic creativity is somewhat compromised by apparent financial
restrictions combined with environmental problems such as a lack of mains
electricity. The overall effect is that
of a recording broadcast on a wavelength distressed by atmospheric
interference. Zack's collage technique
made by breaking into a solid piece of audio with shorter bursts of variable
clarity at irregular intervals - creates the erratic quality and imposes a
liveliness on the whole soundwork. It is
a fine example of live correspondence with its own particular sense of magic -
one that would be dulled by a sharper recording quality and more advanced and
more expensive equipment (http://www.ccca.ca/c/writing/h/haining/zackd003t.html).
Note that in print you get my pictures, but online,
all you get is placeholders where the art should be.
Ask Bill Gates. It was working before. My printer died,
and I had to upgrade the software to a newer version of Windows.
That meant buying a new computer. With Windows XT.
And Internet Explorer 8 (IE8). Whatever happened,
it doesn’t work anymore. It’s broke.
I don’t know how to fix it.