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A Song of the Piro Boys
David Harrison Horton & Jorge Boehringer

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A Song of the Piro Boys

Memory is a convenience
for the living.
It means very little
to the dead.

The sine waves
that accompany the universe
are out of phase,
make their own song.

Is there more knowledge in our bodies
than in our best philosophies?

A white bird,
against a concrete backdrop,
flies.
This day will have no meaning.

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Jorge Boehringer is a sound artist, amp worshiper, composer, writer, researcher and experimentalist.  Propositions for listening to space, time, and memory through interaction with information and instruments in everyday life and dreams.  Situations and/or music: sound patterns, noise, and continua.   Music for ensembles, individuals, and self as solo performer (viol-viola, guitars, noise, objects, percussion, voice, electronics).

Themes of interest include
{morphology, pattern formation & recognition
(biological, meteorological, hydrological, geological, illogical)},{phenomenology
(visible-invisible, temporal, real-unreal, situations-circumstances)},{environments (ecological, interactive, irrational)},
{(pre-) history (& post-)}

David Harrison Horton is a Beijing-based writer, artist, editor and curator.  He edits the poetry zine SAGINAW.