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Patterns on a Turtle Shell

from Just Sayin' Volume Two by The Middle Americans

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The instrumental background I used for this reading comes from Denny Carlson. It is a piece called “Thumbed drums and bowed cymbals”, and it is just that. Throw in some backwards tape and you have an interesting soundscape straight out of 1970s Berklee where Denny taught. Joe Hadar reads his work to this and it reminds me somehow of fractals and other chaotic phenomena. Ask Joe for the true meaning.
Erick Hovey

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A suitable program
A performative skin
A cinematic sequence of movements integrated
A suitable program
That can expand and contract
An infiltration of water and people
That can expand and contract
Half real half imaginary geography
Infiltration of water and people
It is for the other world that the mad man set sail
He is the freest prisoner
Released on the sea there are no limits
The expulsion of the mad man has become ritualistic
So the embarkation right symbolizes the perceived insanity of the traveler
I’m not arguing
Explaining
Architects argue over centerpieces
The charge of the light brigade
Into the valley rode the six hundred
Straight into the valley
Cannons to the left of them
Cannons to the right
Same room, same city, same building
The head that will become a skull is already empty
Same room, same city
Rhythm
Same building
Repetition
People
Different angle
Identical
Different radius
Different temperatures
Symmetry
Different speed
Different bank account
Different angles
Direction
Different radius
Teeth
Cloths
Different temperature
Buildings
Redesigned speed
Division
Different teeth
Assembly
Different cloths
Formal geometry
Redesigned speed
Think of a giraffe
Look at the savanna
Spots on a leopard
Or worse
A suitable program
Patterns on a turtle shell
Patterns on a turtle shell
Patterns on a turtle shell
The lion’s mane
The banyan leaps
The gecko’s tail
The pythons camouflage
Aa herd of water buffalo
Eat, sleep, dream, repeat
Rhino based parametric design rendered in grasshopper
Eat sleep, dream, repeat

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from Just Sayin' Volume Two, released September 10, 2021
Lyrics by Joe Hadar, music by Dennis A. Carlson
Recorded by Dennis A. Carlson in East Cambridge, MA and Erick Hovey in The Barn
Mastered by Dave Hearn
Vocal: Joe Hadar
Thumbed drums and Bowed cymbals: Denny Carlson

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Erick Hovey and Friends Fort Dodge, Iowa

Erick Hovey's music is peppered with seasonings of blues, roots rock, jazz, funk, old power trio rock, reggae, and newer folk fusion styles. His lyrical content has not only good humored nods towards classic blues and rock clichés’, but spans the afterlife, and existentialism as well. Sometimes it’s spooky, sometimes it’s raw, spiritual, and sensual. Think Mark Knopfler, JJ Cale, and Peter Green. ... more

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