sean burn

trans literations (improvisations on marilyn crispell, pianist)


. . . dissolutions ov order and their re-emergences / mindstates and memories / the whole resembling a graphic score, performed gutteral / movements painterly – a white canvas, black ink blots / swerves and curves choreographed / steps to re-assembly / improv-music is this centurys true demos that we must build on . . .



             da     da     ti
             du     da     ti
             du     da      t

             t     t     t     t
             t     t     t  t  t
             t        t        t

             da  di  t
               da  da  t
             ti     da   da

             deey ig ya
             dungzheee
             dun gzheee

              dunn  g  zheee
                  huuccsh
             bbu  daoo

             t     t     t  t  t

             gadergder gadu gdaa
             huv ccshu da ti


                         pee
                      yan
             no

             uhh    puuuuuuh
             p          p        p
             eee     ee    y  a

                                 ya
                       yaya
             y  aaaa

             anno
             nnn
             nn

             o
             paean
             o

crisp

                a
                  a
                    a
                    r
                  p
               e
            g
         g
      i
   o
s

ov desire


in marilyn crispells
revising
ov coltranes dear lord

and other
            sonic
collages

all
  depth-charging
 standards

       as well
      the free
                  fall
apocrypha
               ov
trans(sed)itions

             da     da     ti
             du     da     ti
             du     da      t

             di      di    dyi
             i      gayuw
             eeya  o  yeah

wz saccharine
love machine
dream-turned

             near mare
tho more surreal
schmaltzer



                         wandering
      syncopated nights
and daze-crazed rhythms

       rag time
    a ragged
  time waltzing
an un-des-rez
   dancing
trancelike

   skipping
cracks swinging
      all ways
sounding both sides
   the curved
          tracks

             . . . sex . . .
this is better than
crashing
           off the calories
      sweatburn
fuckwinded

as punching
        concrete
yu struck a chord

meta
        morph
                 o
                     sis
yu changed
my life


and the hands
    crazy dancing
         as heavies

         persist-insisting
     till smacked out
at the buzzing

snatch mishmash
             ov crush
notes in a rush

sirens passing and
the sound slips
back to familiar

dung  kha  chee
     i'm no
imagining

             tchk tchk tchk
             ta chk chk chk
footsteps

behind
             pstvca   tcoo
             ysys  ysys

             chk doo
mind states
bubbling

             dun   kha  chee
troubling
             dung  kha  chee


welling
             dun            kha  chee
             kha jeeeee    rouwah

we been here before
    carving out
the same

territories
ov paranoia
             dagadadoo

             kutchi
             kha jeeeee
             geyouwaiwah

voices well
droit de seigneur
climbing outta pasts

bangbang yr bled
chords ov fingercrush
lording it over

     dark keyboard
   fist insistent
black notes

     screamprints
     hung
on the howling night

yu asked for it
                – their words
             no ours


the blows are too too
easy   but
i'm no
            deleted
                 cheating
       yr turmoil

the boiling
   points and ponts
      ov enemies
        bridge burnt
      and all that
    jazz

                      az     iz
             zzi    aaa   bai
                     aj     grr

                          az     iz
                   az     iz
             az     iz

             graphic
          scores
one all

             peeyoy yoiyouu
             a a huuu    iuiu
             iu       haaaaaa

find the order
    in chaos
the order
dis
     solution and
re sembling

applause in stereo
handclaps
             ccck ch shh

             cccckchssh   cccccckchchssssh

before slipsoloing
codas to
                 dun
             g  hzeee   dun  ghzeee

                          huv ccksh
             huv    ccksh
             bb dao

                        ma
                   ma
             mari

             linc
             rispa
             ee yel

             me
             m e
             mmmmmm

             mar
             el
             rel
             in
             sin
             in
             inc
             n  see
             eye  ris

             ice rise
             crisp  el
             e  yell   ee   in

             ms   m   s
             ssssssssh
misspell

             eee   l
             rly   inc
             i n c   r  is

crisis
             pee  yell
             peee    yell

             plis  du dah
             du dah   uh ah
             ah ah ha ha    ccksha

             ha ha   h  i
             uh ah cpaah
laughing dada

so long

                mind
       dancing
theatre

where we
draw back
curtains

look on
tears welling
thru three seasons

no answers
save the struggle
to remember

the improv
              w/in
paintboxes

all colours dancing
footprints
        muddying

how world wz
from my shoulders
butterfly who floated

                        away

tick
ov nectarine wing
increasing

            fuse cut
butterfly explodes
sun

iridescent
burning up light
as military screams

overhead
            i failed
                         remember



kitescraps
flight scraps
tail flaying

torn
from many
worlds

even then
yu wanting
to stormwinds

scarified blues
the news
slow rolling waves ov salt

            bu  be  di yu  wa
surprised there is
no pain

warrior jagged
from light
sculptures

to honour
     my dead
learning

hard way
some things
we never forget

             i wz
               yr
vindication


no indications
ov penalties
yu paid

             w z    z  z  z
             yr   oua   ya
             o eu  o  e  u

trembling
glass eyed
staring on trouble

in capitals
i'm drowning
sleepless

hyperventilating
the past   the fly-past
fear the fall

thru deeps
carved outta
bones foreboding

and sinking   even as
i'm thinking
dis: location /s

reap percussions
pop ov finger
clicking

               snap
       snap
snap



a one   a two    a one two three
       a one    two    three
a      one      two

three     oh so lazy
bird ov prayer
flapping in on

coltrane time
needlestuck
needle   stuck

                     needle

           struck
spaced out
looping

coming in
            after
the rain

cells ov sync
noise shifting out
shifting in

one two three       one     two    three
             bu    ba    di
             huv ca shi

landing sometime
after the reign
ov knocking it

                       down

and its out
the question

whose waves
are bigger than t.v.
scream

as lost and found
chords die out in
reverberate spacing

                   yu   ai
                ia          uu
             ay             i
                             . . .
                           . . .
                          . . .
                         gu
                        zh
                       ee
                       ee
                       yu
                       i

                      we

distortion adds
where rhythms
return overlapping

no longer crisp
as glaciers pirouetting
sound ov water

under bridges
turbulent
hard

to hole
and crack even as
another

vessel
goes glorious
down

and resurrect
fiddling as
beat-empire

burns-it-up
picks clean
bone

percussions
ov life lived beyond
the lasso

crackling electric polaroids
       ov paranoia
echoing

            e   c   h   o  i   n  g

                        e      c      h      o
  i     n     g

the down
      down
      down

            ov l amen tation



its way thru
yr scape
and after
f
 a
  l
   l
    i
     n
      g

and the sting
ov a comrades
tears

            da       da    t
            du     da      t
            ti     do     da
            do da ti  youi
            yo   w   yawu
            ccckchssssh

            peeyanohh
        az
drum
             and
      then
some

shakuhachi                           space                        between sound