my cloud*
* Elephants can hear clouds
my cloud
says
my glove
my clove
my love
oh Domino give us the powdered snow
let the snow fall
from screens *
white
fingered
noise
the constellation
of him =
you-flakes
projected
what courses
from you =
translating
the spectacle
of your signals *
shape
to come =
furtive diva
Empty scene, nothing
projector blues,
we’re waiting for the actor
the actress, teach y’all the lesson
of ballets, staggers,
shhhhh here come the photons
protons thrown forth beyond it thus
carried without definition sth like
high res and wasting it
has a timing issue—under its snow effects
pixel-desert until the image explodes
* * * * * *
appearance: to be lost in lieu of character
acting the tragic comedy acting out
inventing yourself in funnyfunny grandiose
make and lose your own Callas,
gestures imperfect not too shabby modes of chic
& so hopf then even still
the tragedy’s icon
* * * * * *
so, that’s what it means to do sth
that resembles nothing
you’re not going to ask for an apology are you
it’s blasting cannon
* * *
your mattress
* * *
everywhere
* * *
snow
* * *
of asterisk-
words
* * *
as
starness
* * *
of infra-
sounds
your variety of
breath
white noise
sound cobbled up
of him
hold rough
t-t-t-t
clink of
his encounter
with skin
ddddddd
projection on the other side,
Oran, Algiers at times
the impulse. the pink noise,
your machine’s tongue
of sound, the torrent, pulled,
bodies of electro-gestures.
bruit blanc = white noise
realization of a random process
the spectral density of power
the same for all frequency
bands of the band width.
bruit blanc = heavy crackle
= dtdtdtdtdtdtdt
on the screen, loud thump,
it’s greying out on retinae
wide screen
manifestation, nothing
black / white
subject, the signal-image
the whole gallery
only taken
(us taken)
impressions of the image
is not a painting
Signal faible
bruit parasites électromagnétiques
Même si rien ne fait sens, c’est clair que quelque chose
est reçu, quelque chose a été envoyé. Laissé ouvert dans
le cas d’un acte malentendu, délibéré ou intentionnel.
In the video signal, white noise appears on the image
like a “snow” effect.
man =
exposed bare chested—
torsion of wood
splinters
the observation
free
to proliferate =
Private tongue:
can you flex in
your muscles
this static /
as if taking
ties in your eyes on skin
unplugging the antenna: the
clean sound
of parts and
finds it ever
more powdery
more white?
bodies severally
bombarded by
the signal-sound,
the lines
of papers
of fingers
It fills the
sky like a
radio-whisper
But for her
On the shell
Venus appears
Elle arrive—
Here she comes
shhhhhh écumes
The sound of foam
Pulling away from these languages
being deceptive of
total translation
Wahoo cr sssshhhh—
shhhhhhh—cr snow—
life above zero—cr-
your crying birth tv of shhhhh
naturally
three degrees above zero
you cry you scrutinize you shhhhhhh—
fills the sky with a
radio whisper
of weak cr signal
relation
of
white noise
of snow shh
with
step sounds
in snow crsh
insert loop n
<LOOPx ….>
<LOOPn(LOOPx)></LOOPn>
</LOOPx>
loop n in
loop x you get
loop x includes
loop n, itself
reproduces
loop x includes
loop n at last
loop x
loop x
no result.
loops,
lips,
slips,
loops seen
forehead [Memling]
his loops,
his lips
his slips seen
torsos [Tillmans]
the loops
the lips
the slips seen
the flips [Hockney]
loops
snow
cannon
xtrapolar
great
lightness
Call to themself
One calling the other
Wa-hoo flower patterns
Beautiful plants, ayo logic
The greatest use
Of the following aphorism
On our novel beaches
Algorithm considered as
Begging the question.
fine / eine /
mine / mince /
prinz / price /
rich / reich /
rough / rush /
peach / pêche /
bentz / bêche /
leash / laisse /
flèche / flush /
lash / lasse /
lush / auch /
noch / notch /
touch / touche /
mush / muss /
must / moche /
mèche / mash /
flash / lâche /
ish / wesh /
mine / mince /
fine / eine /
Sound: Vibration of air under the action of a source of sound.
– I’ve recorded these words so that you could hear them, you who are far away. This distance, temporary as it may, will let us hear each other. Like this Indian girl in 1960s England who sent bits of audio tape to her parents who remained far away.
Frequency: Speed of the vibration. As frequency increases, so does the pitch.
– Remaining over there in India, her parents sought to convey what they were, to tell her about the evolution of her context, of which she was now cut off; she sought to reach them without wanting to return. They sent audio tapes, and then super 8 videos.
Spectrum: Each sound is made of a set of vibrations of different frequencies. This set is called spectrum.
– Voice, images, and the movement of bodies reinforced distance as much as presence—they remained there in these tapes, which she set in motion in her film I for India.
Sound-Image-Making-Machine.
In an analogic recorder, magnetic tape runs through the device, the tape cristals orient and set in—they replicate a sound-image, which is then decoded by the playback tips.
Hers and the machine.
I—tapes—
stage crystals over
crystals strictly
sliced rhythm
of envoy I’ = y’ = he
sends your device th’ = she of
her sound-image of this
machine this
—
Vincent Broqua is a writer, translator, and professor. He writes in French and English and teaches North American arts and literature in the MA in Literary Creation program at Université Paris 8. With Abigail Lang and Olivier Brossard, he co-curates the Double Change reading series and the Poets and Critics program. His latest publications include Recovery (trans. Cole Swensen; Pamenar Press, 2023), La langue du garçon (Al Dante, 2022), and Photocall, projet d’attendrissement (Les petits matins, 2021; Prix du roman gay 2021 mention poésie). He is a translator of many poets and writers, such as Caroline Bergvall, Jim Dine, Thalia Field, Kevin Killian, Mónica de la Torre, Karen Sandhu, Layli Long Soldier, Tracie Morris, Erín Moure, and Anne Waldman.
Léon Pradeau is in Chicago, on a balcony, with his cats. He is the founding editor of Transat’, a journal of poetry and poetics in French and English.