{"id":1768,"date":"2013-02-21T15:47:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T04:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2013-02-21T15:56:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T04:56:31","slug":"an-accident-waiting-to-happen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1768","title":{"rendered":"an accident waiting to happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Accident.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1770\" title=\"Accident\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Accident-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Accident-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Accident.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This is my new upload to ccmixter. The February Fortune challenge was to remix some of the work of Kara Square. (Click on the title below to hear it)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--[if IE 7]>\n\n\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" media=\"screen\">@import url(\"http:\/\/dig.ccmixter.org\/css\/embed-ie7.css\");<\/style>\n\n<![endif]--><!--[if IE 8]>\n\n\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" media=\"screen\">@import url(\"http:\/\/dig.ccmixter.org\/css\/embed-ie8.css\");<\/style>\n\n<![endif]--><script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/mediaplayer.yahoo.com\/js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/dig.ccmixter.org\/js\/ef.ymp.utilities.js\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n<script src=\"http:\/\/dig.ccmixter.org\/js\/ef.ymp.trackSeek.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nvar YMPParams = {defaultalbumart:'http:\/\/dig.ccmixter.org\/images\/default-cover.jpg'};\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"dig-track\" title=\"dig.ccmixter embedded track selection\">\n<ul class=\"dig-action\">\n<li><a class=\"dig-info-link\" href=\"http:\/\/dig.ccmixter.org\/dig?ids=41235&amp;dig-pane=info\"><span>Info<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/ccmixter.org\/content\/robwalkerpoet\/robwalkerpoet_-_An_accident_waiting_to_happen.mp3\">An accident waiting to happen<\/a><span class=\"dig-creator\">\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dig.ccmixter.org\/dig?user=robwalkerpoet\">robwalkerpoet<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"dig-license\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dig.ccmixter.org\/images\/by.png\" alt=\"Attribution (3.0) Creative Commons License\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"dig-logo\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dig.ccmixter.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dig.ccmixter.org\/images\/embed-logo.jpg\" alt=\"dig.ccmixter 'You already have permission\u2026'\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>the music.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was both excited and daunted to draw Kara Square as my secret mixter. Excited because I\u2019ve already \u201ccollaborated \u201c with her before &amp; love her work \u2013 daunted because I\u2019d already mined her work and couldn\u2019t find anything which I could add to, as so much of her work is already perfect and complete. More than a week went by and I\u2019d turned up nothing. Then I started thinking about the idea of Fortune, Luck and Accident, remembered by poem and thought how it might interact with Kara\u2019s 2011 <em>spinning<\/em>. <em>Spinning<\/em> had already been remixed many times by people with much more ability than me but my poem would take <em>spinning<\/em> in a whole new direction.<\/p>\n<p>The more I pulled <em>spinning<\/em> apart, the more I realized what a masterpiece it was, so I decided to leave Kara\u2019s production intact for the second half (and climax) of the song. The extended mix is still based on Kara\u2019s and CSoul&#8217;s instrumentation \u2013 the ominous organ (by trivient) and building percussion stretched out a little so it can be savored a little more.<\/p>\n<p>In an ideal world I would have used pizzicato strings over Kara\u2019s bass for the intro but the ukulele was all I had at hand! The rest was just my own words and a little shakuhachi in the slow build to Kara\u2019s vocals. Kara\u2019s words about our environmental inaction added to my \u2018accident waiting to happen\u2019 theme. I used a fair bit of panning to enhance the swirly sounds associated with the spinning theme and pared the end right back to the initial plucked uke to support Kara\u2019s words \u2018turn the end into the beginning.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Kara, Csoul, trivient and ccmixter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the text<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This formed the first half of a longer sequence titled <em>Original clich\u00e9s<\/em> which was originally published in Red River Review (US) last November.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>An accident waiting to happen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>purposeless and alienated, a coexisting <em>anomie<\/em> and <em>ennui<\/em><\/p>\n<p>a concatenation of the unrelated\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I lurk on street corners<\/p>\n<p>planning the intersection of vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>delayed by traffic light whim or<\/p>\n<p>leaving home moments earlier you leave\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 yourself<\/p>\n<p>vulnerable to my coordinate points.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am the haybale awaiting synchronicity<\/p>\n<p>of temperature\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and humidity<\/p>\n<p>to interrupt\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a firefighter\u2019s dinner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am the thrown match which may peter out<\/p>\n<p>or destroy the entire national park,<\/p>\n<p>the oily rag in the shed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am the outdated nuclear reactor<\/p>\n<p>behind the low seawall<\/p>\n<p>waiting for the plates to move.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am the occasional freight train,<\/p>\n<p>the unsignalled crossing,<\/p>\n<p>the sleepy motorist.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am the barely submerged snag in the murky river,<\/p>\n<p>the sharemarket software trigger<\/p>\n<p>programmed to sell\u00a0 sell\u00a0\u00a0 sell.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am the scissors in the hand of the running child<\/p>\n<p>the gun in the glovebox,<\/p>\n<p>gathering ions in cumulo-nimbus<\/p>\n<p>above the golfer on the fairway,<\/p>\n<p>the jet engine\u2019s invisible hairline \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fracture,<\/p>\n<p>the tiny blood vessel in the brain under pressure<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am the one flake of snow<\/p>\n<p>that begins the avalanche.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am unstring theory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am tired of waiting,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>so tired\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 rob walker, 2012 (First text-published in Red River Review. 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