I'm sitting on the living room couch between the Tinycats, Griffin and Fleur, here the early morning. It's quiet. The night of deep booms and sharp cracks is over, though I'm sure we'll hear random artillery here and there throughout the next few days. We enjoyed a low-key outdoor dinner party at a neighbor-friend's place last night. Kept kitties in overnight. Betty wanted out but it comforted us to know that she was sheltered from the explosive sounds; yeah it was probably more about us than her. She's a tough former street kitty, savvy and cautious but unafraid.
Mr. Random's noise factory AKA Rogue Deployment has been busy making more recorded racket. Check the Fame Fighter label Bandcamp page for the latest albums: mrrandom.bandcamp.com. My recent experimental forays have involved "no input" mixing, where I connect outputs to inputs on a mixing board, fiddle with the faders and knobs, and record the often highly interesting audio feedback output in real time. My latest album Aching Glass started life as a long no-input recording, which I subjected to various processing and effects and layered a couple field recordings of a fallen tree next door being sawed up last week. It was tons of fun to make.
Yesterday I printed out the NaNoWriMo writing that I did last November: 30 days of "quality nonsense." I used 8.5x14" legal sheets, and it came to 82 pages. Very nice to have it all printed out in physical form. The vast quantity of text surprised me. I had little feeling for how big it was while it was still only in digital form. Now I'm slowly going through with a pencil and lightly editing. Things I am looking for are the same word repeated too soon after its initial use, and unintentionally misspelled words. I intentionally misspelled and even made up many words as I wrote the drafts, so it's not like anybody else could do this editing. It's gotta be me.
A few weeks ago I transcribed a bunch of pages of typewritten nonsense pages that I wrote in 2019—using one of my AlphaSmart Neo devices—so that stuff is in digital form now and ready to print out and subject to the same editing treatment as my NaNoWriMo material. My current idea is to combine all this nonsense text into a book at some point. But what actual form that will take is still TBD. I might want to add images and even more text. I might want to give it some kind of interesting visual form, something creative and provocative. Who knows? It's like how I make sound art, in the moment.