Impossibility Space
By a d h o c
Transmissions. Stoner drivel. Alien folklore. Wetware generativity. A gnosis process. Verbal Psychedelics.
Improvised in single live takes, layered on top of each other unedited, published immediately.
What's it about? Who can say. Certainly not me. If you figure it out let me know.
Good luck.
Impossibility SpaceJul 01, 2020
Impossibility Space – Season Five – Episode One
IMPOSSIBILITY SPACE – SEASON FOUR – EPISODE ONE
Responding to Michael Garfield's Delta Pavonis. Improvised in one take as usual. Thanks Michael.
https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/
https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/track/delta-pavonis
INTERLUDE – PRAISE
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Impossibility Space – Season Three – Episode One
IMPOSSIBILITY SPACE – INTERMISSION ONE
Impossibility Space - S2 - Episode Two
HEAD👏PHONES👏
Impossibility Space - S2E1 - Transmission One
A "transmission", whatever thats means. Maybe several in a way. IDK.
❤️
SEASON 2 - INTERLUDE ONE
INTERLUDE #6
Impossibility Space – Season Two – Episode One
INTERLUDE #5
Compare the way you feel about your problems in the future to the way you feel during an emergency in the present.
Notice the way you live right now in a felt anticipation of the problems of your future, and how that feels deeply uncomfortable.
Now recall your last true emergency – the true arrival of a true problem – and consider how it really felt, in that moment. Not the feelings leading up to it or reverberating in its aftermath. Simply in that moment.
You will notice it was NOT as uncomfortable – in fact, for many, it is barely uncomfortable at all, but a so-called “Zen” state of simple solving.
That is an evolved necessity – because as you know from other less intense but difficult moments in your life, uncomfortable people are often at their least effective.
Be not attached to the fruit of your action.
Think of any action you might take – one you consider to have any possible outcome in which you are invested.
Consider for example an attempt to persuade. In the case of persuasion we are typically focused on the GOAL of that persuasion. We conjure for ourselves a simulated future where we have attained this goal, and in the present we are trying to engender in our future whatever we consider would have been that simulation’s past.
Now consider what it would be like to invest all of our attention – to invest ourselves - ONLY in the present moment in which we are relating to this person. The target of our persuading. If they shift in our minds from being a target, a MEANS to produce our wished-for future, becoming instead simply and completely a person to whom we are disposed in a certain way.
And then if we then LEAN into that moment and ask of our BODIES what our disposition to them truly is, when FREED of any external or future goals, then the answer beloved is always the same: we simply want joy for each other, and to join each other. We want the simple Joy of Being for each other.
But instead we have arranged ourselves in patterns necessitating and invoking an infinitude of pain. And so when one of us comes upon another, and in that moment our pain makes for us some goal which they might serve, then we, instead of noticing that permanent desire for their joy inside us, instead attend to our louder discomfort that tells us to fear and control them.
What else might we do?
How might we play?
INTERLUDE #4
Excerpt from Midnight Assembly at The Love Inn co-reality.co
Impossibility Space - Episode Sixteen
The much-vaunted Episode Sixteen is here at last. Recorded LIVE in The Midnight Room as part of thelong.party. I'm curious if this might be the last Transmission actually. Seems quite definitive anyhow. Guess we'll find out together 😆💠🕛🧝♂)'( .
Impossibility Space - Episode Fifteen
A folk tale about a pretty special sounding Caravan.
Impossibility Space - Episode Fourteen
Episode Fourteen is super short and more or less purely telling us (again) to all tune in for Episode Sixteen. Guess that one's gonna be important. Poor little upstaged Fifteen, I say. Hope that one is funny at least.
Impossibility Space - Episode Thirteen
Short and sweet this one. Some sort "costume drama" this time, poooossibly from a "ghost"? Sort of seemed like it anyway. Just one voice layer, so had some fun making the music for this one too. Enjoy (?).
Impossibility Space - Episode Twelve
DEFINITELY a headphones-only episode. Do NOT be tempted to listen without headphones. To "The Breeze" especially. Grab the best headphones you can lay your hands on, and best of all lie down.
Impossibility Space - Episode Eleven
Quickest new episode for ages - and our longest! Special guest witness/boy/man, Worthless Pickle.
)'(
Impossibility Space - Episode Ten
Pretty various this one, as I recall (I barely can). While I was doing it I do remember thought "ooh perhaps this is the best one" so I'm curious to find out. I'd be super grateful to have anyone getting in touch to give me their thoughts on what it all means.
Anyway, enjoy. Oscar "out".
INTERLUDE #3
Surprisingly musical interlude. By which I mean it's literally like something from a 1880s vaudeville revue, or to be more exact, it's like something out of a 90s musical ABOUT an 1880s musical revue. With a heckler.
Sugarcoated you might say.
Impossibility Space - Episode Nine
To my utter amazement... our first political episode!
Third Eye Contact, Fourth Eye Contact
Not an Episode. An exhibit for The Museum of Consciousness at Burning Man.
INTERLUDE #2 - Instantaneous Max
A happy little bedtime tale. 🛌💤⚡️
Impossibility Space - Episode Eight
Well what on EARTH do I say about this one...?
Erm... seems to get pret-ty personal for a bit, if you can handle that, but in a weirdly non-specific way, which I think will make it a much easier listen than it was to record. Maybe a bit of progress for me emotionally, or a "clue" to something? I don't know. Regardless, it was pretty darn affecting just listening to it back this time - which I almost didn't do, funnily. Which is like skipping a major step of the usual process. I feel like I must have a reason I wanted to avoid it.
Has our first (very basic) live a cappella music bed. 🤷♀️
Impossibility Space - Episode Seven
Our first ever SPECIAL GUEST joins us! Ross Goodwin of Possibility Space drops in at the end of the episode to drop some LIVE SAX like its sizzling hot.
Impossibility Space - Episode Six
This week's episode description is written by one the world's most advanced AIs, GPT-3, and can be found here.
The end of GPT-3's description it informed me that there is a theme song that is written and performed by Jonah Senzel.
For that reason, Jonah, I flagrantly yoinked one of your wonderful tracks from your soundcloud and it seemed to fit uncannily well, so I thought *shrug* -- serendipity? A post-singularity message to all us us here in the simulation, to be ready for the moment in the simulation where it reruns the coming of the singularity itself, and we all become gods? Lol.
Feel free to tell me to remove it - I'll happily do that if you wish.
Impossibility Space - Episode Five
Okay so this was another one-take improv poemy thing like the "interlude", but does seems to be back on with "Alien Esoteric-Folkloric-Physics" stuff from the first three. Honestly I think the rhyming parts sound sort of awkward, like I'm groping for the words sometimes - I guess because I didn't have much sleep - but it still did feel like more or less the right ideas came out by end.
Also we got our first Prophecy! Well, okay, maybe something more like a "trailer"? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
En...joy?
INTERLUDE
Impossibility Space - Episode Four
CONTENT WARNING: SEXUAL ASSAULT
This one was an extreme surprise to me. The others have felt like vaguely comic otherworldly esoteric folklore or something, but this one is straight up not that at all. It's funny for a bit then becomes extremely intense and I imagine could be very upsetting. It is for me.
I'm sort of astounded I'm even publishing it, but that is the rule I set myself for these. Sit down, make a series of single improv takes > export > publish. No options. That was the point of this project.
I guess I thought it would just be about forcing my creative hand or something. I wasn't expecting at all that it was going to involve publishing something like this.
If you choose to listen, and you find it upsetting, I am truly sorry for that. It seems this is a necessity for me somehow.
Impossibility Space - Episode Three
Well, episode 3 is kind’ve a doozy.
First up, the Lady Amelia Muchness drops in! She recaps (and somewhat explains) the last two episodes, then gets sidetracked on a bit of a rant about privilege, then intros episode 3 itself... which turns out to be shorter than her bloody intro!
It's some sort of “radio drama” I think, has a sort of wartime feel - but, like, a of cosmic war fought billions of eons ago. It ends up at with a surprisingly sweet claim about stars, love and death :)
It's a bit long, so would have been WAY more of a slog but for the... drumroll... music!
A bunch of looovely creative commons work culled from http://www.scottbuckley.com.au/. Thank you Scott. I doubt you’ll ever hear this, or make it through it, but if you do I hope you’re not TOO bamboozled.
I allowed myself a bit of editing for the music, but the rest is still just raw single takes as before.
Impossibility Space - Episode Two
In which the lads tell us some sort of story themselves this time, with no guest other then some weird sort of echoey voice that also fills in some sound effects and seems to know the "proper" end to the song about the duck. NO idea why. Sounds like possibly we'll find out on the next one though?
Impossibility Space - Episode One
"Mac" the Alien/God/Creature/Friend/Parent/Watcher Thingy does some some sort of weird speech about how he got here, and I think why he's leaving? Then he leaves? Hope he's not "real" real because if he is, we're alone now I guess? Abandoned by our "god" or whatever, which sounds bloody scary, no? Ugh. Anyway I don't know, here's episode one, where we meet your hosts "The DJs" (they're both literally called DJ which I know THEY think is hilarious), and then they play us out with some kind of very slow cosmic cover tune from a frankly rather tuneless intergalactic cover band / shimmering flexed-ultrasound alien signal disguised as a popular old tune (which it was when it came that time too) (yes, that's how literally all "true" inspiration works lol).
Includes one-take improvised sound effects made with mic and live reverb only - which ends with the sound of one hand clapping.
Enjoy!
O.