Franklyn Monk's Dronecast

I spent three hours on the audio. Three hours to clean up the original 21 minute noisy recording so that it didn't make you want to rip your headphones off. I was going for something less overbearing white noise, and more rain.

At some point it may use it as a backing track to something.

I also spent a lot of time on the video too, but that was mostly re/learning running bash scripts in Automator actions. And rendering, a bunch of time for my spunky little laptop to render

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Between the longness of you

And my shortness of breath

Cicadas sing

Our moon falls into shadow

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Franklyn Monk Dronecast #32, Raumo: z0

Z0 or Z0 may refer to:

* Characteristic impedance, a ratio used in electronics

* Impedance of free space, a physical constant

* Z boson, an elementary particle that mediates the weak force

* a rare rail transport modelling scale

* Roughness length, a factor used in wind speed calculations

* Z0 sex-determination system in biology

Audio: REAPER

Video: ffmpeg, with heavy postprocessing in ShotCut and iMovie

Titles: inkscape, and no I'm not satisfied with them. I just had to stop, I had to stop. So I stopped with the promise that my next video will have better title/credit cards.

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Drivers not paying attention to traffic light and cross walks.

Franklyn Monk Dronecast #30: Milling

I shot the video at TWU in Denton, TX.

Franklyn Monk

Dronecast #30

Milling

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Franklyn Monk Dronecast #29: Cranes

I shot the video at South Lakes Park in Denton, TX, where I found Harmony, a kinetic art sculpture by George Cadell.

Franklyn Monk

Dronecast #29

Cranes

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Franklyn Monk Dronecast 28: Outtakes.

Just some scraps I had laying around. I record as I write and delete everything up to the final recording—to save disk space, and because there's always too much to review.

Recordings get scattered all over the place, and I'll loose track of them, and sometimes stumble over them again. Instead of deleting them this time, I decided to give you a behind the scenes look at my writing process.

You can listen to the evolution of Tour Guide (formerly Fairy Tale, and before that Nursery Rhyme. It was originally scheduled to be #26, but took longer than I had anticipated to work out. I like all the versions, but the one I pushed out is my favorite.

There's also some other stuff that never became anything. Important lesson here, don't waste your time on shit that ain't gonna work—you'll get a sense of what's salvageable and what's torturous. Anything could be made to work, with enough aggravation and toil and effort. But if it's aggravating and toiling and effortful, just stop, you'll end up hating yourself. Every word you write isn't gold, every phrase you utter isn't a poem, learn the difference and move on.

There's some cool lines there though, and it's funny as hell, so here, some rough cuts. I probably have more on my phone I might push out sometimes, but not soon, this took too much work.

Since I put this together in a coffeehouse I couldn't record the intro, so I had my computer read it. There's also a computer generated voice reading the segments of a podcast—as best I can determine them to be. I thought about doing the whole talk my audience to death with personal info, and what not, but I hate it when podcasts have long intros, and outros, and pandering fucking personal tales, etc. I know it's done because people are more likely to follow the person, not the work, and it's easier to brand, and the additional length makes ads more palatable, and give the audience warm fuzzies, but I can't stand it, I can't skip them fast enough—so, I won't do it, but I reserve the right to change my mind at a later date. The parts of a podcast segment is funny though.

Sorry for the ramblings, I've been at this all day, something like nine hours, heading out now, bye!

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Once upon a time in a desolate land

In the middle of a

Familiar worldsystem

You'd recognize it

It's right over there

Stood a tree.

Under the tree sat a poet.

It was the last tree and the last poet.

Fitting they should die together

Thought the poet.

Fitting, thought the tree,

But useless.

No more useless than

Love thought the poet.

And the tree dropped a leaf.

We shall die,

We shall die together

We shall die,

We shall die together

And they did.

The tree lost its branches

and the poet decomposed.

LAUGH

They're still there

A dead testament to waste

And desolation

For whoever should wander by

The commentator shakes

Its head and says

What I mean to say

Once upon a time

In a desolate land

The last poet

And the last tree

Sacrificed themselves

So that you may

Stare in despair and regret

What you have done

HORROR HORROR

Look at what you have wrought

Look at what you wrought.

CRY

LAUGH

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Sorry for the wonkiness of the podcast last night. I had such a hard time with this microcast.

It seems to have been doomed from the start. It took days to record that one second of audio. No, really. Well, and to mix it. No, again, really. It was a whole thing.

I guess I should start with philosophy and aesthetic…err, my pet-peeves, that is. My biggest pet-peeve is when people, especially podcasters, over talk things. It’s rampant.

Sometimes, often, the fewer words the better. Sometimes you can say what you have to say in under a second. When you can, do. We’ll all be happier.

Words are nasty horrible little things. Yeah, I know, I’m a “poet”, and a reader, an amateur linguist, and all that, you’d think I’d love words, but no, words obstruct as much as they clarify. I guess we all know that. Words also destroy thought, other people’s words are detrimental to a poet in the act of poet-ing.

The act of poet-ing (ha! how Alan Watts of me) is like brainstorming, is observing things so intensely that they fall away and little stories pop out. These stories pop out form cracks in the wall, the tree-line, the cold hard stare of a backstab-y lover.

If external words impinge on these soap bubbles of poemlets they’ll pop leaving noting but a sticky resin behind from which there’s little chance to salvage anything. You might be able to break it down and rehydrate it, but that’s generally not the case, you can burn days trying to resurrect an abortion. Sometimes you havta try though, I guess.

Words are constantly with us. They blast from television sets, and radios. Cell phone conversations, billboards…ok, fuck, I’ll stop there, you do the observing—how many words are you besieged by in a day? How many of them do you actually want?

That’s one of the reasons I prefer

Drone, it allows you to build a microcosm in a bubble to explore. A fragile microcosm that will burst at the first chance. You havta protect your perceptual inputs from unwanted agents of chaos!

Words color and distort our thoughts. Words manipulate us on the most basic and subconscious levels. Words sneak their way in and make you long for and desire and need disastrously unhealthy and damaging things.

Heh, Propaganda Theory 101, or perhaps I should call it Media Literacy. My camp keeps wondering why people keep voting against their own self-interest. It’s this, y’all. The maelstrom of corporate words have worn down their shields and they don’t have the space to develop their own, uncolored, thoughts. And you can’t blame them.

A couple generations now of declining economic conditions, worsening schools, schools mandated by law to instill a very warped and intellectually deficient world-view, bolstered by an invasive media-sphere. And it all ran by a handful of elites that are making out like bandits.

Control words and you control people. It’s simple. Thank you Goebbels, seems your side won after all.

That’s one of the things that informs my poetry and my other art. I try not to manipulate folk. I say my piece and I’m off. I try to stay lean.

So back to this episode. Originally it was 1.25 seconds, but iTunes has some serious issues with sub-two-second enhanced podcasts. Audio files under two seconds work fine in the music library, but in the podcast library will fuck up the played-flag and the resume at time-stamp and just be a misery. I had to up the duration to a full two seconds before these unintended effects went away.

I keep saying enhanced podcasts, what do I mean by that? An enhanced podcast is one that contains chapters and art-work. Apple is moving away from them, apparently, they’ve ceased development on tools that allows you to do such things.

Hello

Good evening

and welcome

I'm Franklyn Monk

I hold deep-seated and derisive political ideologies

It's true!

I'm an ally

But I see no sense in preaching to the choir

I see no sense in preaching to the choir

So I'm gonna talk on somethin'

Mundane

Or prosaic

Like sunsets

The moon

An owl

Oh, the Moon isn't her real name

Her real name to too beautiful

Too beautiful too beautiful

Her real name would burn your ears

Or my tongue

Turn you into a zombie

Albeit a good one

That doesn't eat people

So it continually eats itself

Sunrise to sunset

Sunset to sunset

There's an owl there

Somewhere

Oh, I have a first conscience memory of an owl

But it's too painful to revisit

So it's left as an exercise

For the audience

What is the poet's owl?

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