AlKyMatics
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An algorithm is a set of processes or procedures or instructions or rules in order to answer a question or solve a problem or make a series of calculations. If I search a word in a search engine, the algorithm will go through this process in order to give me a series of results. I am in the same process
Can I ax you a question?
What is AlKyMatics?
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Another fusion or fiction, however you want to say it.
Al (D)(K)(G)huavara CyM ( 1) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%F0%90%8E%A2%F0%90%8E%BA%F0%90%8E%A0%F0%90%8E%BC%F0%90%8F%80%F0%90%8E%B7%F0%90%8E%A1%F0%90%8F%81#Old_Persia n 2) https://www.etymonline.com/word/algorithm 3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizm i )
Search for Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī…The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing
Did you know the root of the word Hymn, a song of praise, might be either sem, meaning to sing, or syu-m, sewing or a binding. ( 1) https://www.etymonline.com/word/hymn 2) https://www.etymonline.com/word/Hymen )
What other ways can we calculate, compute, account, name through space and time? The art of completion, restoration, rejoining.
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An all-encompassing, complete sound support, structure, formation of piled up information, or a storehouse of fish. Towards an algorithm ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khwarazm#:~:text=Etymology,-Mawara'nnahr%2C%20Khwarazm&text=The%20Arab%20geographer%20Yaqut%20al,the%20peoples%20of%20this%20area )
Soundtrack: Blind Willie Johnson — Dark Was the Night
Alchemy and Cymatics
Most of us have heard of alchemy. The root of the word chemistry. The process of transforming certain metals into gold. From Al and Khemy. Khemy meaning the Black land of Egypt, or is it Kem, meaning to pour into, as in gheu, the root for the word god. (https://www.etymonline.com/word/alchemy)
Gheu sounds like a heavier version of a sound I mentioned before. Kwa Kwa Kwa Gwa Gwa Gwa Gwu. To pour in or invoke all that flow that you were trying to count? Gwu Gwu Gwu Ju Ju Ju Jook! (https://www.etymonline.com/word/*gheu-?ref=etymonline_crossreference)
KyM: Does it mean earth? Does it mean to pour into? Does it mean to sum up? Does it mean to complete? Does it mean Black? Does it mean a receptacle of fire or flow? (https://www.academia.edu/17414560/Akwamu_Gyaman_and_the_Origin_and_Meaning_of_the_Name_Kamit_Kemet_Egypt_Revised_and_Expanded_ )
The waves of the Blues: the roots of the word blue are the same as black and blank. It meant something flashing before your eyes. Like a fiery flame that made you bubble up. Bright like an (E)Dub, an aether ops, like Kw/ame, like Al-J/ami, the congregator on a holy day, “The One who has power to assemble and arrange all that which has been dispersed” ( 1) https://myislam.org/99-names-of-allah/al-jami/ 2) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jmn#Egyptian ) Like (K)Amun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amun ), the Egyptian god of air and sun with double winged, bellowing thoughts and the ability to craft with his skill, all of creation, or to have faith or entrust, (K)Imani (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%90%D6%BE%D7%9E%D6%BE%D7%9F#Hebrew)
Do you know what amines do for the body? Makes great fertilizer and makes the building block proteins for life. They also help build immunity against disease. Ask the fish about nitrogen?
(https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ammonia#English )
To be a face on fire, full of rage, full of knowledge and wisdom, you start st st st st st irring into life
Cymatics and Maroonage:
You might have heard of one and not the other. You might think: what does maroonage have to do with cymatics?
Cymatics is, according to the wikipedia article, “a subset of modal vibrational phenomena. The term was coined by the Swiss physician Hans Jenny (1904-1972). Typically the surface of a plate, diaphragm, or membrane is vibrated, and regions of maximum and minimum displacement [waves, structures, modes] are made visible in a thin coating of particles, paste, or liquid. Different patterns emerge in the excitatory medium depending on the geometry of the plate and the driving frequency. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymatics)
The vibrations are forming structures on the plate, diaphragm, or membrane. When you move your body, does it do the same to the ground, to the space in which it inhabits? The diaphragm and rib cage— the support structure that allows for breath, for life, for a wide range of frequencies (https://www.etymonline.com/word/diaphragm ). Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwa (https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2015/jul/06/only-when-i-laugh-science-laughter-sophie-scott-royal-physiological-society )
Soundtrack: Yelli - Baka women “yodellers" of Cameroon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cATZe_jlc9g https://www7.lawrence.edu/conservatory/areas_of_study/musicology/con_brio/baka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb0z0yOdY5E
The word Maroon comes from the word Cimarron, which has the same root as Cymatics. (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cimarr%C3%B3n#Spanish ) Kyma, meaning wild, untamed, a wave, an arrow, a summit, a peak, a fugitivity, a passing across the threshold towards another thing, a conception, a swelling up into being.
Samuel Carthwright, a self-proclaimed American white doctor, once described enslaved Africans or Black people’s determination to find freedom as a disease, not the enslavement, not the abuse and overwork they endured. But the determination to be free. He called it Drapetomania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania ) — a madness of running away. He also created another disease, Dysaesthesia Aethiopica, the Ethiopian or Black body fractured sensation resulting in sluggishness or numbness of the skin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysaesthesia_aethiopica ). The signs on the skin, lesions, were a symptom, but not of previous abuse like whippings, but of the disease in the Black person and that free Black people would more likely have this disease. And Carthwright’s remedy was to just work them more or whip them; that Black people were just lazy and didn’t want to work.
NDigiTale:
A narrative divergence resulting from environmental and social influence, vibrations manifesting in movements and structures of the body.
“Well, as the African-American experience sort of shows, it speaks to how in the most horrific of circumstances, we rise. And that’s what it means. And in terms of how the darkness can kind of take over, the pain can kind of take over, the madness; he speaks of madness all the time, the rage, it can take you over. In order to move through it, one must embrace it. My music is in my madness, he says, my colored contradictions. There’s madness in me. And that madness sets me free, you know, so the point is to encourage all of us to embrace that madness and not be afraid of it and understand that that madness, that pain, that struggle, is the very thing that gets you to the other side and brings you to the light.” — Billy Porter about George C. Wolff’s The Colored Museum (https://www.wgbh.org/culture/2015-03-12/the-colored-museum-the-play-thats-redefining-racial-america )
“Dancing to the rhythm of their own definition, celebrating in their cultural madness. And then the floor started to shake. And the walls started to move. And before anybody knew what was happening, the entire room lifted up off the ground. The whole place just took off and went flying through space —defying logic and limitations. Just a spinning and a spinning and a spinning until it disappeared inside of my head. That’s right, girl, there’s a party goin’ on inside of here. That’s why when I walk down the street my hips just sashay all over the place. ‘Cause I’m dancing to the music of the madness in me. and whereas I used to jump into a rage anytime anybody tried to deny who I was, now all I got to do is give attitude, quicker than light, and I’m dancing to the music of the madness in me. And here I was, all this time I been thinking we gave up our drums. But, naw, we still got ‘em. I know I got mine. They’re here, in my speech, my walk, my hair, my God, my style, my smile, and my eyes. And everything I need to get over in this world, is inside here, connecting me to everybody and everything that’s ever been. So, hunny, don’t waste your time trying to label or define me. … ‘cause I’m not what I was ten years ago or ten minutes ago. I’m all of that and then some. And whereas I can’t live inside yesterday’s pain, I can’t live without it. My power is in my madness and in my colored contradictions”— Topsy Washington from “Exhibit 10: The Party” of The Colored Museum (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhFlG3GzqH4 )
What is familiar and known may actually cause harm or is a distortion of truth. Authors who are too attached to their crutches, their comforts, their objects, their property, their labels, their definitions, that they misinterpret and invent causes and answers to justify false beliefs when the answers were already evident. Or sometimes what is too familiar, causes us to see what others don’t —magnifies the injustices, the unequal treatment, the gaslighting about the sensations felt in the body. Numb or hypersensitive? Lazy or overworked? Mad or ….
Message in a rearview mirror, “Objects are closer than they appear.”
Soundtrack: Baka Women play the Water Drums (liquindi) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNzX5t5S4Ls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-WzJyNNBUc
Cimmaron
Cameroon
Chameleon
The established record of root of the word Chameleon is often claimed to be (D)Khame (earth) and leon (lion) (https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=chameleon ). But it never made sense to me. Lions are already on earth and chameleons don’t looks like lions. But when looking up Cameroon (https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=cameroon ), the root of the name, I learned meant lobster, prawn or crayfish, from Portuguese, Latin and Greek. There is also Cameron, which means crooked nose or river (https://www.etymonline.com/word/cameron ). Looking at a chameleon, it more resembles those. But there are no records that say such. When an authority tells you the record is truth even when it makes no sense, sometimes you have stray and run towards what makes more sense. What is coming up for you in the waves? What is your question? The record is not always a reflection of reality but a distortion, a mixup, a manipulation, a dubbing over, an echo. What was not heard?
The Moon card in tarot depicts one side of a river with a dog and on the other side, a wolf. A crayfish is seen on the shore of the river. Between the domestication and the wildness. The shore between the safety of land and the unpredictability of the woods, the river, the ocean. Which is home and which is a plantation? The illusion of what you are told you are or what you think you are and the mysteries hidden underneath. A common misconception about chameleons is that they change colors to blend into the environment but chameleons actually change colors because they are aroused or agitated or any other excited mood (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/chameleon-colors-reflect-their-emotions 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp9W-_W8rCM ). They are in an ecstatic state. They are in a state of madness. Their mood or mode of being is changing in response to the environment or the weather. Their skin is a multi-layered lattice of crystals that stretch and contract to help change the color, even to colors we humans can’t see. What is bubbling up in your mind? Are your eyes looking in every possible direction? What about directions you don’t see?
The polychromatic phenomena, like a rainbow, is a symbol of in-betweenness, a transitional state, a crossing over, multiple functions or stories on the skin, the many ways to fashion or style the body.
The power tool of an NGL on your body can turn you into something else, the wrong interpretation. DL DL DL DL The emphasis placed on what shows up, what is revealed, the symptoms, the monster, the scapegoat, and not the roots, the system, the environment, the prescriptive words used, the limitations of records and archives and knowledges, the doctor representing a singular voice of authority. The danger of the single story, the single author, the single interpretation. But you, too, have an NGL, digits to recount and turn into new narratives, or unite/bond you with some other meaning, the symbiotic extended or outer familiar, the pros/thetic word, an authoring of one’s own representation. Out of the we(m)b of the aroused, agitated, mad pile of information authors the phonosynthesis technology, the symbol of relation, a name that works, has life and breath and sensation of being, Kwa, Echo, the question straying from the fixed form allowing for other relations to form. The connection that allows you to reveal yourself.
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2) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/slov%C4%9Bnin%D1%8A
3) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jeli
5) https://www.zammagazine.com/arts/1356-guardians-of-the-word-the-story-of-the-djeli
6) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A6%D7%9C%D7%A2
7) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A6%D7%9C%D7%A2 / https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%B6%D9%84%D8%B9#Arabic
8) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A9#Arabic / https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Algeria
9) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tsela
10) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI_(cuneiform)
11) https://www.etymonline.com/word/result
12) https://www.etymonline.com/word/solution#etymonline_v_23867
13) https://www.etymonline.com/word/save#etymonline_v_22794 /
14) https://www.etymonline.com/word/salute#etymonline_v_22653 )
The vibrating piling up of information or frequencies until it becomes a visible form. A we(m)b, an extension, a bridge, an outer space, a truth, a sermon, a broadcast, a bending up or out into form NNNNNNNN
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The ability to bend the space around with sound
The word, to speak, to tell a story, to call together a people, to know a truth like a tree bending in the wind or crowding in the woods, a foundational trunk or pot of pros/theses, a projection,
A name that means can I ax you a question? A cutting up, a scattering, the making of story, a dance, a movement like a wave, flowing and springing up, a wholeness. A resting space. A result.
A dipthera or debtera (https://www.etymonline.com/word/letter )
I got soul and I’m super bad
Tune into the right frequency and you find the right station. There was once a time where the conception of a telephone or a radio did not exist, was not natural, was not normal. If you mentioned the possibility, people would think you were mad.
Go project in the direction of that wail, the voice of a spinning sphinx, that piercing screammmmmmmnnnnnnnn….
To conceptualize freedom, how about a new name or dia/gnostic? Synesthesia (E)Dub? AlKyMatics? AlKyM/oRGification?
Music is an important part of Caribbean maroon culture. Music is a ways of creating sense or sensations you haven’t felt before or haven’t felt in a long time. It prepares you for a sense of freedom, traveling across space to a new space where you are boundless. Freedom songs are alchemizing.
Soundtrack:
Music of the Guianese Maroons’ Seketi Music and Drums https://folkways.si.edu/music-maroons/latin-world/video/smithsonian
We risk a lot for new knowledge, new wisdom, new sensations. One NDigiTale technology I did not mention is our power of Improvisation — to take what you have and make something new out of it. A Synesthetic (E)Dub. The Head Ghost in Charge of Materializing Sense.
What is freedom? A ran ran ran ran ran RAM/Dom?
We have had the spiritual sound technologies to heal ourselves. Of course, they went by other names and then we forgot those names. But we did not forgot the feeling. We just needed to remember. Remember the migratory patterns of the Debtera?
Soundtrack: “God’s Chemical Laboratory of Redemption” from “I Know I’ve Been Changed” by Lashaun Pace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzMKZcoFTrM
Waveforms is a better description of being, of becoming, of our movements towards something else, of our vibrations on this ground
Do you know what Somatic transference means? The transfer of physical sensations and feelings from one body to another. Trance, Transformations, Transference. The body’s ability to resonate and re/verb. To create home, to locate oneself, with the resonant, flowing energy in our bodies and others as Bernice Johnson Reagon said. The Tidalectics as Kamau Brathwaite said. Knowing the rhythmic, flowing relationships between elements of sound. Not just what is said but how, where, when, who, why it is said.
I learned in artist Karma Mayet’s class about diphthongs — the combining of vowel sounds to change how a word sound when singing it. The I that Lashaun Pace sings “I Know I’ve Been Changed” becomes an “I-Ah” to ground and emphasize the personhood, I. Those small flights, or movements, petit-maroonage as Iman Person wrote in “The Spiritual Sound Technologies of Jamaica”, through a re/petitive vocalization, developing alternative strategies of existence. (https://burnaway.org/magazine/accompong/ )
Soundtrack: Jamaica Revivalists 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0apj4Rybb4 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaJdCRENIkI
From Iman Person: “Somatic transference of sound encodes networks of generational wisdom in ways that cannot be fully expressed through text, for these acts of knowing are sensed and registered through the body and through speech. Several phenomenological terms exist within Caribbean epistemology that escapes meaning inside conventional European thought. These phrases cannot be easily translated because they are related to a system of knowledge influenced by music, humidity, rainy seasons, tides, slowness, and the weathering of time. Language is activated and remixed between African, “Nation language,” and English.[2] Each phrase contains layers of metaphor and universal truths, all passed on through rhythm, patakís, sacred stories, and folk remedies.[3] The dead and the living connect through an axis of sound beaming off into endless destinations and possibilities of existence…
These seal grounds are spirit-powered portals containing the science necessary for time travel to take place through the eyes of the journeyman or journeywoman.[7] With this technology, Revivalists transverse between their current location to Africa, India, and other sites impacted by the violence of colonialism. During flight or travel, the journeyman may also visit spiritual kingdoms where they encounter ancestors, guides, angels, prophets, and other supernatural beings. Seal grounds sometimes include wooden pillars with four outstretched arms in the direction of a cross illustrating the boundary between the spirit realm and the living. The act of travel taken on by Revivalists is evoked through sonic trance or what is called drilling, laboring, or groaning, where members of the congregation encircle the seal while stomping, and bowing up and down in a repetitive motion, inhaling and exhaling loudly to produce an almost percussionist instrument of communal sound. This trance-inducing action continues for hours and, sometimes, even days.
Through this ritual, the Black body elevates to that of the superhuman— free and able to encounter remote geographies, galaxies, and entities in service of their community’s well-being. The sonic ritual of laboring is a form of petit-maroonage or a short-term flight and absenteeism from the contentious reality of the human. Through smaller acts of rebellion and psychological maroonage, alternative strategies of existence are offered to Black communities and individuals. By navigating the margins of multiple worlds, Black sovereignty defies ordinary space-time through sound, thus restructuring social, cultural, and environmental boundaries to enact recovery, care, and healing from the traumas of colonialism. bell hooks speaks of this margin not as an experience of deprivation, but as a site of richness and resistance, for the margin positions itself as the counterpoint of the center. In sound, new sensations dispel the ill-perceived divide between human language and plant signals. The murmurings of fungi or water speak. Because Blackness exists along these margins, languages, ancestral knowledge and new potentials for a living are safeguarded from the ever-looming cloud of assimilation into the prevailing culture. Once absorbed by the center, we lose the ability to critique and deconstruct the institution of whiteness. By existing beyond the boundaries of the human, society can locate a balance, greater sensitivity, and embodiment of the Other. To abandon this human flesh for a vastness that is darker, deeper, and more entrenched with life’s what-ifs reveals the echo at the other side of the void.” (https://burnaway.org/magazine/accompong/ )
Each sound bubble up into being…a new waveform
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