SEA OF AMBIGUITY

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One of my main visual art interests is the intersectional / multidisciplinary field of Psychogeography, which seeks to integrate physical and social geography + the essential design / art tools of cartography and navigation into a Psychological frame—from the Cultural scale to the Private interior terrains of Mind and Personality. Great world trade routes such as the Silk Road are excellent examples. Absolutely physical and mappable, crossing both Space and Time, existing on multiple levels…such a thoroughfare of commerce must by definition also be a highway of Psyche, Storytelling, Teaching…“culture” in the richest and most inclusive sense of the term. Grid coordinates on a globe have no meaning without the deeper layers and textures of History…Language, Music, Magic, Science, Customs, Cuisines, Sex, Adventure, and Misadventure (banditry, slavery, smuggling), Exploration, and Escape. • I’m a skydiver and trained aerial surveyor, a collector of maps and a mapmaker. I’ve also taken to jigsaw puzzles and the study of world mosaic art in recent years. But I never move beyond the Space Age wonder and hype of my childhood (I would get on the roof of my family’s house in pajamas at full moon times to perform sympathetic magic cheering of our astronauts). I memorized all the seas and oceans of the Moon in 3rd grade. I live in the Nevada desert now because of old Twilight Zone episodes and movies like the original Planet of the Apes using the eerie terrain as settings for other planets and desert island asteroids. One of the key Ph.D. dissertation topics I abandoned in my 20s was on the history of the Plurality of Worlds idea. • Musically, I am here explicitly seeking to celebrate the work of the beautiful Liz Story, a remarkably gifted solo pianist who became known through Windham Hill Records (as did George Winston about the same time). She has in recent years faced much personal challenge (parents with dementia, the death of her husband, and brain surgery). I love her music and her spirit. • Harold Budd is another influence on this piece (like Jon Hassell, he’s something of a constant reference point and guide for me). I’m here trying to put his fascination for Renaissance counterpoint and what I call the “lyrical precision” of his ambient creations into an Atomic register (Americana…Charles Ives, Copland, Cage, Reich…the hobo aesthetics of the Depression going Post-War Cold War X-Files). Budd was a magpie when it came to what caught his musical attention. I try to emulate that, whether I have the theory or the performance capability or not. Pinetop Perkins, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Bill Evans…so much to hear and feel. I don’t think Buckminster Fuller had any special connection with music—and yet I often feel like I’m trying to write and play Buckminster Fuller Music. For more information about my writing, visual art, and music: • https://krissaknussemm1.bandcamp.com/... • https://www.amazon.com/stores/Kris-Sa... • https://lostxplorers.podbean.com/ • https://krissaknussemm.hearnow.com/

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