About <the> CodeX Writing Style <0f> Ambient Folk
The symbol laden, parentheses ornamented, sign decorated syntax which characterizes the Ambient Folk printing style, is an intimate dance between what Ezra Pound classified as Phanopoeia, Melopoeia & Logopoeia.
This dynamic tension between how a text presents, when it sounds & what it means, is as much about rhythm as it is about image. The codeX-typeography is an aesthetic technique designed to move w/ the cognition rate of information processing, in terms of blocks of data, buffered into categories; entering the minds eye as conceptual elements in a higher order configuration. This method is an attempt to engage & inter-phase with the ¨auditory imagination¨- tapping instinct & intuition as the momentum of meanings compound & are multiplied, through function enriched intervals in the printed sequence.
The para-syntax, typography tactics of CamelCased words in mosaic molded, assembly line, frieze/relief, etched font lines; theses sculpted & chiseled augmentations of print, unite style with strategy; generating figure/ground interaction; creating syncopated shifts of stress in the visual field- modulating stream of consciousness in a musical way. Encoding text by setting into motion this algebraic overlay of font & type formula is a way of weaving together picture <w/>
In a playful arrangement of sentence as score & with a touch-subtle, tactile sense of humor, this etched font line approach takes concrete form with a pictoglyphic rendering of symbolc flow. So, for example we might use keyboard icons to illustrate <0Ur> 360° o0O
Echo-RinGinG ))=~=(( I-MediA-SeA <0N/0ff> RhYthMiC modULationS <0f> <theE> NooSpherE ((O))0o={[( 0 )]}=o0((O));
{[( ElectricK GroUnD )]} = (({[ Ac0ustic SpacE ]})).
The tango of grammar, syntax & icon is driven by a tacit sense for the isomorphic echoes exchanged between different levels of knowledge; the fractal structure of information & the multivalent resonances moving across diverse subjects & disciplines. This insight inspired mode of compression conveys an integral feel for the simultaneous performance of meaning, through a trans-contextual play of mysticism, myth, science & satire; using portmanteau, pun, paradox, alliteration & cultural retrieval. Amplyfing the autopoietic nature <0f> the NotioN <{=}> Mirror-Minding <theE> NeX-Us <0f> oUr SynKronos Kosm0s. Hybrid phrases like ¨CirC-U-itS¨ <> ¨Man-U-Scripts¨ <> "Meta-TableauX-eYes¨ <> "ArchE-TeXt-U-Are" <> "N-DaiMoNsi0naL¨ are all examples of compound conceptions generated by this self-organizing poesy of Ambient Folk.
Through Whitmanian wordsmithing & Joycean wiring, sentences are routed through the HiStorY <0f> Mem0rY; phrases are patched & daisy chained, linking experience as events; liminal connections are dovetailed with conscious percepti0N, using interlocking melodies & lilting rhythms to trigger the MeMorY <0f> HiStorY. The evocative power of assonance, consonance & onomatopoeia charge word flows; subject matter undergoes energetic transform between explicate & implicate meaning; pitch & sense are stretched by variSpeed shifts in type font; cycles of conceptual overtones are concatenated, as the heart of the signal is fine tuned <iNt0>
This kinetic & dynamic play of glyph & syntax is deepened & enhanced by using core concepts & song titles specific to the Ambient Folk Project, like ’Phase Tide Frames’ & ´Fire Waves’. These memes are transposed into different registers as they project their impressions through changing contexts. In the case of a song like {[( Where )]}; the idea of ‘Where’ deals in a Hegelian insight, expressing <the> ImPerMaNenT FLuX <0f> experience as being the truth of any & all reality, as (( N0W )) is an ever changing, Heraclitean river of moving moments: elemental energies, primary forces, ancestral influences, ghostly presences, terrestrial transmissions & astral reflections.
Thus, the {[()]} enclosed words like
{[( Where )]}, {( OmeGA PoinT )},
(( RefleXA0N )) <&> (( Resonant Interval ))
are all modal expressions
of this same Evanescent,
InTerDePendenTLy OriGinaTinG,
Event/Pattern/Process/PlaY <0f>
(( { [ LOGOS ] } ))
PeR(e)ForMinG {[( SpiriT )]}
{([ CoMprEssed TimE >< SuperPoseD SpacE ])}
<0f> oUr (( HoloGram 0f HistorY ))
<(<=>)> {{ KnoW-US-SpherE }}.
