Pantomime, If You're So Inclined

The gest.

Nothing more than a glance, and an entire conversation has begun, been savored and wrapped in an instant.

I often underestimate wordless communication. As an undergraduate I sought to understand my world better by exploring the analytic realms of linguistics. I hoped to get a better grasp of what it meant to live. You might, be wondering why I would pursue this notorious subject through this particular avenue. Meaning in my life through my understanding of human expressions of meaning. While a bit circular, my studies allowed me to see that if anything, the nature of all meaning is multidimensionality. And that despite grammarians and logicians attempts to put forth explanations of meaning in the absence of an interpreter, the expression of meaning was wholly one based on context.

Linguistic purists be damned. Yes, it's true that I flunked out of my studies while on that path, but still let me assure that I know a thing or two about truth conditions, semantics, recursion and pragmatic models of interpretation!

While I may have failed to have fully explored the depths of expressed meaning, I know of a man, who pioneered an entire dimension human expression. Marcel Marceau.

It is to him, and the pokémon that proudly followed his great ballet flatted strides, Mr. Mime. That I dedicate this weeks' Vulpixelation.

The show - ( starts 5 minutes into the recording)

Artist	Album	TrackName
Pierre Vervloesem	Not Even Close	Burba Bubba
Marcel Marceau	Marcel Marceau Speaks	The Origins of Mime
Slavic Soul Party!	Taketron	Sviraj Srecko
Marcel Marceau	Marcel	The Eternal Law of the Underdog
Windy and Carl	Consciousness	The sun
Windy and Carl	Consciousness	Breathing (trembling)
Marcel Marceau	Marcel Marceau	Style and Character through Gesture
Various Artists	An Anthology Of Chinese	Zenlu
Pierre Vervloesem	Not Even Close	Luis Luis
Kraftwerk	Tour De France 2003	Tour De France Radio Edit
Stereo Total	Musique Automatique	L'amour a trois
Marcel Marceau	Marcel Marceau Speaks	The Mime must sing within himself
Various Artists	An Anthology Of Chinese	Ang Song ming

-Oak

The cries of the Viridian (Pidgey)

This Friday evening after I finished up working with my assistants in on Arbok venom immunity tests in Fuschia city, I spent a good while of the afternoon sitting still on a park bench outside the safari zone, looking in a the expanses of wilderness and comparing the zone to the Beech Maple Forest that surrounded the path up to the zone. It was 6:30 or so and the sun was setting. Not surprisingly the trees were stirring with life as diurnal birds returned to their nests to roost for the night. Despite the great commotion, a pair of birds caught my eye. In the evening light, it appeared as if they sat, basking on the mandarin peel surface of a fallen log. Unlike the rest of the flock of Pidgey's these two sat, rustling quietly alone on the ground. It was soothing to see the two watching the world calmly without necessarily interacting with it, similar as to what I was doing there.

As common a pokémon as Pidgey may be, their behavioral patterns are noticeably interesting. Pidgey resembles a small, plump-bodied bird. It is a brown color, with a lighter colored throat and belly. The tips of its wings share this cream color. Both its feet and beak are a pinkish-gray color. Its plumage is fairly nondescript, particularly compared to its evolutions Pidgeotto and Pidgeot. It has black markings around its eyes and a small crest of brown and cream feathers above its eyes. Pidgey are docile and prefer to avoid conflict. If disturbed, however, it can ferociously strike back^[78] and will use its wings to stir up clouds of sand in an attempt to distract its would-be opponent and escape.^[79] Pidgey also uses this technique to bring its preferred prey of small insects into the open.^[80] Pidgey seems to possess magnetoception, as it is capable of returning to its nest from any location without fail.^[81]


For Tuesdays' Show, expect songs about quiet evening forests, pigeons, and coming home.
Update:
The show

Artist	Album	TrackName
Moby	18 B-Sides	Love of Strings
Big Blood	The Grove	The Grove is hotter than an ocean's oven
Venetian Snares	Rossz Csillag Allat Született	Második Galamb
El Ten Eleven	Every Direction is North	Plus 4
RJD2	The Horror	Smoke and Mirrors
Pauline Oliveros/Miya Masaoka	Accordian Koto	Daybreak
Professor Oak	vulpixelation mix	Storm Chimes and birdsong
Nurse with Wound	The Surveillance Lounge	The Part which is that part in you is now dead

Sleater Kinnery's "The Fox" was also played.

-Oak

Radio Hi-Jynx

Good Evening,
Lucky me, lucky me. I get to see Diamanda Galas tomorrow! I will let you know how my encounter with the mistress of the night goes.

Jynx:
Enter her sweet embrace and you will know sorrow's trails. Telepathic communion brings forward your latent desires. Stare away, stare away, for this Nordic princess's hips can bring down the greatest of men. Whispers pass between you. She runs her fingers across your skin. Her fingers usher a cold snap, while her lips summon up the thawing warmth of mead soaked evenings. Gales scrape at the window panes, and her moans of pleasure populate the empty nights of the cold tundra.

She longs to console you. She longs to feel your pain. Sadly you spurn her love. You feel too much. Her brought forth your convalescence, but you would not accept that it would also tear you back down again.

How sad that she continues to wander.

Tracks played:

Siouxsie and the Banshees	Once Upon a Time: The Singles	Happy House
Nico	Behind The Iron Curtain	Femme Fatale
Diamanda Galas	You Must Be Certain Of the Devil	Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band	Between My Head and the Sky	Between My Head and The Sky
Siouxsie and the Banshees	Once Upon a Time: The Singles	Israel
Diamanda Galas	You Must Be Certain Of the Devil	Double Barrel Prayer
Tube and Berger	[no value]	Straight Ahead ft. Chryssie Hynde
Diamanda Galas	Malediction and Prayer	I'm Gonna Live the Life
Siouxsie and the Banshees	Candyman	Candyman
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band	Between My Head and the Sky	I go away smiling
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band	Between My Head and the Sky	Higa Noboru
Caboladies	Burning Portal Bathtubs	Tr 1
Siouxsie and the Banshees	Once Upon a Time: The Singles	Love in A Void

The Show

-Oak

On Air. Finally!

It happens to be that I have had the good fortune to have broadcast 5 transmissions of my show at 88.3 Mhz! Thanks to the wonderful folks at WRCT Pittsburgh, the show is up and running and shall continue for the next three years. Check back here weekly and you'll get some tid bits of the goings on at the lab and the research that is underway.

I'm sure that many of you heard about the police state that Oresburgh became over the course of the week of September 24th. Unfortunately for me, the city enforced a state of martial law and anyone out on the street was dealt with very abrasively. As a result, for the past week I was locked in my lab with no other recourse than to cook up some mushroom and pickled plantain pizza and delve into the depths of the internet.

I became uncomfortably lonely, looking out at the waxing moon and the empty halls of my lab. Everyone was excused from work and so I didn't even have pimplefaced lab assistants to aid dull the oppressively quiet hum of the lab.

On the second night as I loaded up the terminal and began to input some data into the command prompt the screen began to flicker in odd pulses of red, blue, green. For a minute I thought it was simply the isolation and lack of sleep getting to me, but suddenly a polyhedral shape began to pierce my monitor. I sat there mesmerized at the occurrence and glanced over at an atomic clock. 4:07 AM I heard the sound of a modem beep and through the screen came, to my surprise a Porygon. The room was suddenly filled with a soft hum of pulsating warmth. I reached out to lay my hand on Porygon's tail and felt everything go to blue...

For what felt like days my consciousness permeated the matrix of information and I drifted alongside my porygon guide through a universe entirely unknown to me. What was astonishing, more than the nature of this cybernetic astral projection was the way in which I simultaneously saw the infinite layers of abstraction: Electrons, binary, Perl, html, human language, abstracted perceptions of time. It was like being a living breathing Cubist painting.

Slowly, Porygon guided me and I began to see my body sitting calmly in the lab. I was staring at myself staring at myself. I bowed in respect to the Porygon and the friendliness that it had shown me in our journey.

Amazingly, it was 4:11. Only four minutes had passed

When I was pulled back into my body I felt at ease and had the most wonderful night of sleep.

Rest assured I have logged this experience thoroughly in my notes. I recorded the anatomic proportions of the Porygon that visited me and this was the result.Build your own Porygon!

Pokemon Vulpixelated as of September 30th:
Electabuzz
Dewgong
Oddish
Magikarp/Gyarados

The Show

Squarepusher	Hello Everything	Planetarium
xlk	Nestek	The Bytemaster
Matmos	Supreme Balloon	Mister Mouth
Ken Rei	Wearing Sweatpants	Wearing Sweatpants 2
Autechre	Chiastic Slide	Nuane
Microsoft	Windows 98	Windows Sounds Full
The Octopus Project	One Ten Hundred Thousand Million	Hold the Ladder
Radiohead	OK Computer	Fitter Happier
Boards Of Canada	Twoism	Sixtyniner
Danger!	09/14/2007 EP	19h11
papadosio	[no value]	Polygons
Daft Punk	Discovery	Short Circuit
Beck	Guero	Broken Drum [Remix]
Moldover	[no value]	Live At Basswerks LA
Squarepusher	Hello Everything	The Modern Bass Guitar
Venetian Snares	Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms	Pwntendo

-Oak