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Another old piece brushed off and polished for submission, and the second to at least vaguely resemble cover artwork; this time it is a monochromatic instance of Pearl Jam's Binaural.
Subject matter is a plasma lamp over a relatively long exposure.
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There's quite a lot of resonance for me in your gallery as a whole, but I'm commenting on this one for the moment because I happened
to be recommending binaural beat technology to a student of mine. (Years ago, when I was a grad student, I participated in one of
the Monroe Institute's seminars, in which they were using early binaural technology to induce out of body experiences.)
This piece is especially cogent and thematic, I think, for how it illustrates the connection between sound and plasma. I think most
musicians know of the effect of sound on plasma (via the Ruben's Tube [link]).
What really surprised me was the corollary, the plasma speaker ([link]).
Not too long ago, I learned that the best measurements of the emission of qi from qigong practitioners was in the form of a sound
that averaged 8 Hz (from the palm!). The qi moving through the chakras is really a plasma braid, so it makes perfect sense that it
would come out as sound (and that sound -- "healing tones" for example -- would immediately affect qi). Anyway, this is a long-winded
appreciation for how you capture that relationship so economically while evoking Tesla, the Eye of Shiva, the Vesica Pices, and the Sun
all at the same time. I suppose even "Pearl" Jam would fit into this as the Logos Spermatikos.
I looked at some of your writing, which has a very unique quality. Hard to put a word to it, but it would be a kind of contemporary
"real" realism -- lots of SF allusion, but only because the "real" world is really pretty much SF now. You're a very interdisciplinary
writer, with a wide spectrum of allusion that makes for engaged reading. I think you need to write something longer and mix it
with your photography work, since they are facets of the same rich mind.
Thanks again.
Miran Kim, the illustrator, went on to do lots of X-Files covers and other genre work. (Mike Dringenberg, of Sandman fame, was going to do the art for the novella.)
Ribofunk never took off, but people like Gibson and Stephenson did set the stage for the kind of "real" speculative writing you're doing.
Cheers!