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From Jean-Luc Nancy's "Exscription":

"writing exscribes meaning every bit as much as it inscribes significations. ... [Writing] shows that what matters ... is outside the text, takes place outside of writing. ... But this 'outside'--wholly exscribed within the text--is the infinite withdrawal of meaning by which each existence exists. ... the empty freedom by which existence comes into presence--and absence. ... it passes through the work of meaning to expose ... the ungroundable being of being-in-the-world. ... this is what provokes all possible meanings, this is the very place of meaning, but it has no meaning."

Listening, like reading or writing, is to expose oneself to this not-having or non-knowledge, and to what Nancy calls exscription. One exposes oneself to the paradoxical presentation of what is out of the presentation, what presents itself ex-scribed. A recording, what is registered, is not only that set of things that are present in it. A recording is also an exposure to the life and existence that goes about registering this or that electro-acoustic event, but which itself cannot be included in it, scripted only as its outside.

Looking back at the recent past, indeterminacy, beyond its destiny as a figure of modern music history, is a term that can be given a new function in this context. For what is at issue in the indeterminate is not ultimately the achievement of a form one goes back to (like one goes back to the sonata form, for example), but the transformation of an entire framework for creativity whereby one is opened up and exposed to a life's work. A life, an existence--what is not presented as such in the materiality of the recording. It is out, but this out "makes itself heard as the cry that is not heard." The surprise and freedom of being in exscription, where the recording empties itself of itself.

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Porous Collective Fresno, California

First an archive of Michigan improvisers, now a metaphor for the many/others that is the self. Lalén, Caeiro and Xeno are heteronyms, in Pessoa’s sense. Their vocation is electroacoustic, experimental, improvisation. Sound art that sometimes lies beyond what some call music. Ultimately, the fundamental work behind these recordings is to precariously ground unground existence in the doing. Peace. ... more

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