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linear silence (tighten to nothing the circle that is the world's things)

by Ayla Cosnett

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Formerly “Long Title: one of these days i might summon an enochian demon and then wake up to me and the girls in a loft in south philly braiding each others’ hair talking about the moon and the new boygenius ep with no memory of anything that's happened to me since the summer of 2014 (or is that but another face of the very teleology machine responsible for the present state of affairs)” [sic].

Being a series of variations on a theme of the Jesus and Mary Chain, with possible Lydia E. Pinkham obbligato. Consider it my contribution to the current pop-punk revival, which I shall sing triumphantly before weeping throngs of the ambiguous packed into a fifty-thousand seat Rotary Club hall in Hartland, Wisconsin, following a cover of “Making Love out of Nothing at All” by Air Supply. An exorcism in pageantry, if not results, from the darkest night of the soul I have managed to express musically: beginning as an attempted exercise in saudade, which then was strangled by cascades of associations and all-too-poetic neurotic triggers into a desperate cry to Isis. Yet at times the working almost betrays my original aims, through the emotional and physical struggle of committing it to proverbial tape.

Ayla Cosnett: electronics, Rickenbacker guitar with screwdriver and E-Bow, voice, mixing, art direction, conspicuous absence of blood, windy precipice of unknowable empathies
Realized outside of time and physicality, but generally along the Jones Falls in the maudlin autumn of 2023; released in time to allow listening synchronized with the penumbral eclipse of the Hunter’s Moon over Baltimore in case there’s something to all that woo that could be accessible to me

Special thanks to:
- Dan Ryan and Nina Garcia, for making me want to play guitar again
- Yoko Ono, for the endless inspiration of “City Piece (1961 winter)” and its subequent musical interpretation
- Jack Parsons, John Dee, Edward Kelley, Hadewijch of Antwerp, et al. for reminding me that all esoteric pursuits originate in embodied desires even (especially?) if they tend towards the crass and reactive
- Hurricane Bertha, for miring my preadolescent proto-sexuality in rip currents off of Duck, North Carolina, in the aforementioned summer of 2014
- the city of Dayton, Ohio, for making it all possible; the cities of Reading, Pennsylvania, and Reading, Berkshire, for their respective roles in making their respective parts of it possible
- the members of the Serge Modular Discord
- the first-born of the ages, in perpetuity

“I laugh, not when it fits into my talk, but when it fits into the undercurrents of my talk.” –Anaïs Nin

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released October 28, 2023

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Ayla Cosnett Baltimore, Maryland

b. 1999 (easton, maryland, usa)
situationism, psychoanalysis, the chesapeake bay, spring reverb, b movies, the trafalmadorian evolution of internet culture, pauline oliveros, david tudor, daphne oram, miles davis, can, ornette coleman, scratch perry, sonic youth, being a tranny ... more

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