Text for a Cable was commissioned by Daniel Moreno Roldán as part of his Digital Environment project en el marc de Barcelona Producció - la Capella 2019. It is a text written from some of the titles of the songs deleted from the Myspace social network in March 2019. The text became part of the lyrics in the album Myspace Dragon Hoard (Lost WorldWW Music); a world music album that features tracks consisting of samples of recovered Myspace songs.
You can read my text below. There is more about the project, and the opportunity to listen / download the album here.
Above is the video featuring my text that Dani made as a holding page while the project was being developed.
Text for a Cable
I am trying to remember everything
Universe yellow
We all went looking for it
Desolate Ocean Dust
I am trying to write it all down
Seasons Standard Periscope
I am trying to
So tired in Renaissance Soundscapes
There was a room down to which all stairwells lead
Hitchhikers use maps
I am trying
Ojala Petals took the Loco Stone-Train to Kansas
I am
Velocity Prophets waited at the Mona Lightly Resort
I
Fire Got Dropped One Street Up
I waited there, writing, watching the light change from night to day to night
Umo got 108
From moonlight to sunlight, cloudy or clear
A Love Rescue Song
From dawn, through daylight to twilight and then dusk
The Unknown beat the Rainy Glutton
We all came looking for it
Sing “come blood my master”
The motes of dust flickering between the hum and crackle of electricity each told me their story
Moon, you, and the beast
I am the only one who made it here
The Preston Wizards crossed the Big Dixie Bridge Battle
I lost myself there, found myself here, in this room
Unwanted Shirt with Glen The Great Companion went to Nebula and Loaf City
In this room, away from which all doorways lead
The Eyes roll past Airplane-Bay
Steadying my memory against the beams, pillars and towers
Carole Tengo Love Sky
The loops of code swirl and swoop, each one croons their song
Valdy-heroes, a driscoll-bunch mixture
Someone needs to listen, otherwise no-one will remember
The Bootlegging Plane Wars of Aubrey Mansion
We are conscious for as long as we are, and then we are not, and then we don’t remember
One talk, more and more underground
But here they remember for you, they remember in waves
Oh, and Mario, of a funky purple Friday night
It is what I am here to hear
Across a big here blue Stallion sky
(It is what I want to hear)
The Dead Big Time
Next to me the machinery chatters its tale
Amaryllis Kerouac Day
I want to stay in one memory, can I?
A whole day for Sacramento Rain and Eternity Angel static
We need to remember everything, we need to know it all
Into the fader went Manuel big gladiator and Raglan Twinkles out of Central Leo
More all
Live Chile fox chasing smile on shorty comfort and freygang toast
The world turns, the system regulates
True Afterglow Night Zeus and Astrobalance Windows System go Guacamole
Let me remember the good ones
Bullet brothers join floor-kimani-feathers
Do computers understand seasons?
Kelp experience lights up when waiting reasons
Dressed just as we are, we enter the room, a different room
Diane Yeah Dog
Holding hands, we fall onto the bed, undress just as we were
At Orleans Lucas Deli
Later we fall asleep, your head on my chest, together we drift away, we mix with the dust
The 16 Bullets, the fire, the re-enact studio desert
We mix with electricity and the code and slipping through the windows, we become everything
What Brick Song
I
Unknown Tuck Out Matters
I am
Highways to Paris Frozen
I am trying
The clouds enter and search
I am trying to
The Laughing For Dream
I am trying to write it all down
Anthem Over
I am trying to remember everything