bilateral kellerberrin

Yesterday began with some general questions about “what music could be”.

Definitions of sound, noise, and music – what is noise to one person might be musical to someone else…

In the beginning, the students were reluctant to go out on a limb. When I asked what kinds of music they liked, some played it safe: “you know, all kinds.” One girl finally owned up to being really into heavy metal: she thrashes away at home with an electric guitar. Adam, (or “Mr Whatsthepoint?”) is already up to 5th grade piano.
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More and more, I have the feeling that we are getting nowhere, slowly. As the talk goes on, we are getting nowhere, and that is a pleasure. It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else… (more…)

About 2pm I went in search of Neville. I’d met Neville at the pub on Friday night during Jag the Joker, and we’d talked gardens and worms. He told me that he had discovered a big cache of worms in his garden, and I was welcome to come and get some.
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I don’t know about you, dear reader, but I think I’m getting “screen fatigue.” Does such a thing exist? Who would want to be a graphic designer / web designer / data entry clerk ? Every day facing the same flickering frame, this universal tool which enables everything we do and then traps us into a heavily dependent relationship. I’m with them Plymouth Brethren down in Cunderdin: no computers, no phones, no faxes. Yeah, that’s what I’ll do. I’ll give up. Return to a simpler life. But I’ve just gotta send off this one email first…

Of course, writing this blog each day is not a strain at all. In fact, it’s a pleasure to sit and think about yesterday. To give yesterday one last chance to live again before it disappears forever.
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In Kellerberrin, identical rubbish bins are spaced out at uneven intervals along the main road. (See photographic survey here). Why is this so? It is my theory that the bins reflect an asymmetrical use of urban space by the town’s inhabitants. Most probably this is due to the variation in the type of businesses located on this bustling urban strip. One hypothesis which seems likely is that the local council have allocated bins on a “most needed” basis, rather than simply making the space between bins “equidistant”.
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Josh remarked upon how many bins there were on Massingham Street. And lo! Once you look, there’s no denying it! This has got to be the highest number of garbage receptacles per capita…of any town in Australia? Yes, let us claim that title for Kellerberrin, at least until some other tidy town wannabe makes an attempt to wrest the crown from our tidy tidy head.

Since it was a beautiful Sunday, I decided to document this phenomenon for posterity. So here you have it folks:
The Kellerberrin Bin Run, 2005.
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I jokingly wrote to my friend Tony in Sydney about how I was going to find it hard to leave this place. I told him that maybe I would buy a farm and stay on. Tony wrote back: “Funny but I find it hard to imagine you running a farm or even living in all that thundering emptiness…”

I like the idea of “thundering emptiness.” Emptiness so vast it makes the cavity in my skull resonate deafeningly. A kind of sublime vacuum.
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Feels like I can hardly keep up. My own computer has packed it in, so I am over in the gallery office doing this typing. It’s 10.36am, and Kellerberrin is “action-stations” this morning. People bustling everywhere and cars all over the place. Pat said it’s because of the speedway this arvo, and also there is the shire election happening. She gave me a huge bag of just-spun wool, and another smaller one from Di, for our Pipe-Vest project. It’s nice stuff – natural colours, wound in loose bundles (do you call them “hocks?”) .
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Yesterday I hung out with a character called Peter McCabe. He was standing in the doorway of the craft barn, watching the world go by.
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Well it was sunny and warm yesterday. The wonderful “opening rains” seemed to have run their course. Unfortunately I spent most of the day indoors in front of one of these infernal machines trying to sort out logistical issues with the Expanded Cinema event I’m planning for the Kellerberrin Cinema. Seems like there is no-one who has a 16mm-350watt-xenon-arc-lamp-projector in Western Australia. Well, I reckon there is one out there, and we will find it! (Incidentally, if you are reading this, maybe you googled “16mm-350watt-xenon-arc-lamp-projector” to see what price you could get for yours, as you want to sell it in the “quokka,” look no further, you have found a buyer right here).
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