{"id":1135,"date":"2016-04-29T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/joyyzzaa\/?p=144"},"modified":"2016-04-29T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T21:21:00","slug":"psychic-citysoundrings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/psychic-citysoundrings\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychic City\/\/Soundrings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/144\/2016\/04\/220px-Berlin-Kreuzberg_Postkarte_079-196x300-196x300.jpg\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Psychic City\/\/Soundrings\" \/><\/p>\n<p>21\/\/4<\/p>\n<p>To Viktoriapark, the highest monument, the highest steps &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>From the furthest fringes of sound and forward &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>(But I wonder, what constitutes the furthest\/\/how can I relegate the cognizance of an order surrounding me to the substrata of these impressions?Right. Best to just stop.)<\/p>\n<p>a distant train, rhythmically clamoring over tracks<\/p>\n<p>traffic in the nearby streets<br \/>\na faraway 1-2 1-2 ambulance siren<\/p>\n<p>the rush of a waterfall,<\/p>\n<p>china clinks in the cafe<\/p>\n<p>a small bell on a dog&#8217;s collar, among the murmur of scattered couples<\/p>\n<p>the wind in the trees (timeless delicacy)<br \/>\nbroken violin notes,<\/p>\n<p>ascending, descending, circling steps<\/p>\n<p>dogs barking, birds warbling &#8211; calling, responding sparring<\/p>\n<p>fallen petals, dried and grating along the stonework<\/p>\n<p>insect wings<\/p>\n<p>and then blanch &#8211; blur toward inward slowly withdrawing &#8211;\u00a0 language fades, inflections, wind, heartbeat &#8211; still at the center of a sphere of constant movement, interaction, interrelational, the frantic soundscape, worldwise depth, the whole outside, foreign, unnavigable, dense and multi-dimensional &#8211;\u00a0 I hold my breath, a pure, filthy drag off of that whole outside and reduce myself to a controlled heartbeat, a low echo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21\/\/4<br \/>\nTo Viktoriapark, the highest monument, the highest steps &ndash;<br \/>\nFrom the furthest fringes of sound and forward &ndash;<br \/>\n(But I wonder, what constitutes the furthest\/\/how can I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}