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AN IMPROVISED DEVICE
Alan Semerdjian, An Improvised Device, Lock N Load Press, 2005

That which doesn’t know countries or flags, no geography, that which doesn’t know men, no women, no reverence, no face, that which addresses only moments, that which materializes over time inside a moment, that which is fierce and material, that which is the moment inside, that which happens inside a second, that which happens inside the second time, that which is the third, and the fourth, that which continues, that which is a monument of the fourth or the third, that which stands in front of monuments, that which stands in front of monuments and says before you monuments were fields and hands on fields, and fields and hands together, together and folded, that which is together and folded, that which can be inserted between together and folded, that which goes to sleep together and folded because of the shape of its night, that which may be imagined together or alone, that which goes to sleep on fields together and folded or alone and still makes music, that which makes music still, that which stills the music on other kinds of fields, stills the music but continues playing, that which is quiet but ticking, that which thinks about the ticking, that which unexpectedly thinks about the ticking, that which unexpectedly because we wouldn’t expect that which is improvised to think about the ticking, unexpectedly because the tense, unexpectedly because of the tense of unexpectedly, because the tense don’t think, because the ticking is against thinking, because thinking doesn’t tick, because people say, because people say thinking is inside and warm and ticking is outside and cold, because ticking must be outside and cold, or it’s thinking.

Because ticking is outside and cold it must have no reverence, because, just because, just because a clock has no face, just because a clock covers up a face, just because a clock has no face doesn’t mean no heart, no brain, no courage, no nerve, just because is the nerve, the nerve of just because, just because is a parachute waiting to open, just because clutches like an alien, clutches like an alien is to sigourney weaver just because, just because is that which is under the coat that clutches, just because is that which clutches under the coat, that which is because of the ticking, but the ticking can’t be clutch, can’t be clutching, cut the clutching can’t be cut, just cut from under the coat, just removed, but the ticking can’t be cut, but the thinking can’t be cut and separate, but the thinking can be outside and cold, but the thinking can be separate, but it can separate, but the thinking can’t be that which is divorced, but the thinking that which is separate, but the thinking that which waits to open, but the thinking that which is a flower, but the thinking is an organ, but the thinking eagle, but the thinking moth, but that which waits to transform, that which ticks, but the thinking that transforms a tick, that which waits to transform the tick, that which the tick holds onto, that which is separate, that which thinks to separate the separate, that which is impossible, that which to separate is impossible, that which to create is to separate, which is impossible, that which waits to separate is impossible, that which sees this to separate is impossible, that which sees this as separate is ticking, that which sees this is thinking, is ticking, is thinking, is doomed, maybe, that which is thinking that we’re separate is ticking, that which is thinking separately is timing, timing to separate, timing to think, that which is timing thinks of endings, but that’s impossible, the thinking we’re separate, just because.

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from The Serpent and The Crane, released April 24, 2020

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Aram Bajakian New York

The music of guitarist, composer and educator Aram Bajakian has been called “a masterpiece” (fRoots, July 2017), “shape- shifting” (FreeJazzCollective, January 2017), and “astonishing” (Georgia Straight, March 2017).
He has toured extensively with Lou Reed and Diana Krall, and is on three Tzadik albums with the band Abraxas performing the music of John Zorn.
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