Art's Birthday submissions for CITR FM

By Absolute Value of Noise and Anna Frizziest

ExtremityCassette_avn_af_33m43s.mp3

"A prehistoric mechanism from the time before the emergence of water and organic life .. an ancient magical sound machine that loops and churns out a never ending, ever changing musical score. It works with the sounds of crystals, the creaking of shifting rock, and the magnetic resonance of the earth .. until one day the organic world is introduced .. then rust interferes with the workings of the cassette .. the sounds become progressively more erratic, and eventually it stops."

MorseMountain_avn_af_51m42s.mp3

"The mountain sleeps; dreams stone. Festooned with power lines and communications towers, striated by long-ago meltwater and creeks that have since evaporated, blown bald by the prevailing winds. Some day, come earthrise or landfall, the mountain will walk out into the sea. Until then, micro-movements in the sediment and rock are its uneasy speech, while the antennae atop its massive breathing shoulders continue to call and respond."