Altruistic Phonons

One of the strong ideas that begins in the first part of the Satz clock emanates from a woman who is amusingly called “the goodwill girl”. Her name is Anika Trask. Like a flower that briefly appears, her inner beauty is stunning and her impression will last forever. Her contribution being her philosophy is that there is only one bad thing that you can do which is to cause suffering to living creatures. All else is O.K.

There is no crime in wearing a red shirt or facing North on a Saturday. You can kick rocks,  just don’t hurt your foot. Survival is a modifier and it grants a very wide latitude.  Her deep and precise idea is spread and developed by others and the gray areas are explored. Violent opposition to this concept comes from others that have their visions of what morality is and view this idea as a threat to their structures, money and power base.  Anika is driven to live her creed daily and uses Google earth to locate areas of trouble and to travel to them and help others. This is actually not in her creed which only states that you must try to avoid causing suffering.  Helping others is optional if you wish to do it.  She reasons that if most people simply stopped causing their own inflictions of suffering on others then an enormous transformation would occur that would be epic.  In her actions to help others her own daughter is neglected to a degree.

Out of her ideas spring much seemingly disconnected movement of people. While her demise is met in Nevada her influence is lasting, strong and central.

Since the Satz clock is so large it is not easy to just describe what is going on without serious loss of context. So we will get a description of it in many essays and small writings. The larger segments will be the story line.

One of the categories that is so useful to this work is “Atmospherics”. Anui would be a good one word atmospheric though the term can take on many forms. Alban Berg always chose very good subjects that matched the atmospherics of his compositional techniques. When you follow the story of Lulu and Wozzeck at no point do you think that they don’t match quite well.

The atmospherics of the Satz Clock are heavily reliant on what the author calls “corn haze” which refers to random and/or purposeful blurring of reality.

Governments supply huge amounts of corn haze so as to confuse their subjects and accomplish their goals. Salespeople, meme spreaders, many institutions, hucksters and a broad assortment of con people work the haze.

If the drug industry wants to conduct policy that protects and advances their profits they undertake large amounts of corn haze to appear to be protecting us. The universe naturally dishes out copious amounts of the haze as evidenced by some of the most brilliant scientists plodding about in an erroneous path.

Paths such as the work of Dr. Linus Pauling in vitamin C, Einsteins struggle with quantum mechanics and economists (possibly a true psuedo-science) who accept lock stock and barrel broken models and ridiculous notions. (Upstanding good people with Nobel prizes can make errors too) Thus if people of this pedigree can make errors of magnitude how can the common person ever not be horn swaggled most of the time. Corn Haze is at its nastiest when it comes to peoples trust and belief in other figure-head humans. Usually it is obvious in the end who the bad guys are, that the Bastille is what needs to be stormed. Who doesn’t know that Hitler and Stalin were monsters? (Well maybe Amadinijad doesn’t) But during their rise to prominence both were swaddled in copious amounts of corn haze. The industrialists thought that “We can work with this fellow, Hitler.” The Vatican viewed National Socialism as a good alternative to Communism. Both fascist and communist monsters destroyed their opposition by ruthlessly killing and imprisoning them so the only opinon young people ever heard was pro-monster propaganda.

People today sometimes do not view things as being similar to the always repeating past but while the monsters of today may not reach the lofty standards of the past such as Caligula their super charged Corn Haze is of the highest quality ever had. Focus groups test dull thinkers and help formulate the finest sophistries possible. Some of the so called press in many instances are little more than tabloids that rubber stamp the story line that the prominent power brokers deem fit. Sensational trash that holds only a few embers of accuracy with fantasy woven in to support the controlling interests vision of correctness. From all angles the citizen is being told what repressive measure is being done to “protect them”. The poison is being fed tirelessly through all outlets and it is very uncommon for you to not run into the carefully crafted talking points that other institutions have created for their own dark gain in your conversations with typical people. Corn Haze is the atmospheric that the Satz Clock swims in, embraces and ultimately tries to destroy. The music which may seem at times to be drenched in corn syrup is really attuned to the Corn Haze. The story ultimately ends with a sharp degree of clarity… so we expect.

THE STORY 11

This outline of the book form gives a glimpse at a small part of the story in part one of the Satz Clock. There will be continuous updates as time goes on.

The opening of the book begins by talking about the events that lead to world war one. During prewar Europe the countries were about to embark on a devastating folly that helped no one and whose objectives could not even be stated clearly. Many were attempting to avoid the war and one leading Frenchman almost succeeded but he was assassinated. Many bizarre coincidences happened and some actions sent people to locations which triggered others to go to theirs. Europe was full of energy and the large body of foolish ideas that were embedded into the cultures conscientiousness were at work. Notions of National identity and histories that reveled in the great armies of the past such as Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon and so on gave of a vision of war as the most glorious way to lead ones life. (and to quickly end it) Celine said it best of the reality of it ,

“Were we all by ourselves then? A column of men, in fours behind each other?  The music stopped.  Then I said to myself, as I saw how things were going, ‘It’s not such fun after all. I doubt if its worth it.’  And I was going to go back. But it was too late!  They’d shut the gate behind us, quietly; the civilians had. We were caught, like rats in a trap.” (Journey to the end of the night)

On the eve of the great folly none of the participants thought something very large was going to happen. Just like the opening to the civil war the whole thing was supposed to be over very quickly. There were many events that were needed in synchronicity and they indeed happen. The Archduke of Austria was not even supposed to go to Serbia (Oddly he was actually sympathetic with the cause of the people that killed him as opposed to the person that was supposed to have went) so because of bizarre coincidence he goes down and as he is driving a weird twist of fate causes the road to be blocked. Instead of waiting it out his driver takes a turn into another street in an attempt to go around. He gets lost and in an equally weird event his driver pulls right up to the assassin. The Archduke is killed and world wars one and two are unleashed with unthinkable consequences.

Occasionally large groups of people take actions that affect many others and the total summation of all of their simultaneous movement create a special affect that is grossly profound. These synchronicity symphonies of humans are Satz Clock moments. For good or bad, they do occur in history. The musical piece is about just such an event with many implied outlooks on it.

Overly simple first step in the story line…

Wilson Myshkin, is told to do world improving, in a pattern by his hunting partner Gordon Brown. Wilson is directed to use the phrase: The ideal membership stakes debt free path to wealth and security zone. A fine example of a government program reduced to a meme so as to sell it to the maximum number of gullible observers. There is a sequential anagram message that Gordon is trying to spell. Thus he kills in the first city which is Barrow Alaska where Wilson presents the letter to the townsfolk “T”. (the first letter of The idea membership stakes debt free path to wealth and security zone) He will not kill again until the next letter of his message occurs which is in Calgary which gets the Letter I in the presentation ceremony performed by Wilson Myshkin. Wilson continues down to Yellowknife (then Juneau, Calgary, Vancouver, Seattle, Eatonville, Yellowstone, Pinedale, Coer’D’Alene, Salt Lake City, Portland, Crescent City, Oakland, San Jose, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas (where the great Octagon suite takes place) Phoenix, Tuscon, Nogales, Hermosilla, Guadelajara, Acapulco, Managua, Tegucigalpa, Corpus Christi, Houston, Dallas, Oklahoma, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Montreal, Albany, Boston, Waterbury, Newark, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Raleigh, Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando, Miami, Kingston and finally ending in the most appropriate place, Port Au Prince. Each city has its own special piece such as the sensible Google Earth song being played over San Jose. Features of the cities are used in the story and music so that each city has their own special treatment. Ultimately the Google Earth mapping feature is implemented throughout the Omni Opera/Book which goes through the cities of the world and ultimately ends in the frozen wasteland of Barrow Alaska again. The Story of part one should be self contained and complete while allowing for a continuation to the ideas that develop in the other parts.

Leading up until Los Vegas, the “Good will girl” who uses Google Earth to plan acts of kindness (all Google Earth users look into the cities for exacting locations and houses to plan out their events) is married to the brother of the cop, who is Joe Trask.

Four characters use Google earth to implement their plans. At least two are all killed. Two other characters in sympathy with the intentions of the original characters will then take up the functions that the dead people were pursuing so as to fulfill their wishes. Within the key story development the main focus musically and story wise of the first part is that the international policeman (Joe Trask) who figures out that there is a pattern with the murders and is ultimately set to catching the killer.

Wilson is a motivational speaker.

1. Wilson was a prosecutor that had a record number of false prosecutions.

2. He is now a bureaucrat for the North American Harmony Zone.

3. He recites the many building projects that have failed under him

4. He constantly places letters, gives speech’s and bungles.

5. He is drawn into the big scene setup with Joes’ trap that fails.

6. He ceaselessly continues his adventures bolstered by public monies.

Joe Trask (His father changed his name from Trag to trask) the killer hunter is complex and not clearly a typical central police figure. He became a cop because of Joe Friday, and he changed his first name to emulate Friday. He first is sent to check out the strange death in Barrow. Joe runs a Bingo game for old folks and hunts. When he figures out that it is a pattern Killer he is impressed by the style but cannot reconcile that the dopey Wilson Myshkin is the person.

None the less he follows the pattern which he weirdly enough latches onto while doing a bingo game. He clicks onto the pattern as he is reading out Bingo numbers. He sets the trap in which he talks his brother who is married to the good will girl into going to Las Vegas and setting up as an ideal victim with a name that matches the letter of intended city. The brother uses romance to fool his wife who is deeply in love with him. He is not totally insincere but he is not totally honest either. Trask does not know the message yet and in error makes a wrong assumption. His brother and the good will girl do not know what he is doing fully and put her in the position of bait unknowingly. While setting up Myshkin, he himself is trapped by the killer who succeeds in killing the good will girl and punishing Trask. A lot happens in this suite and the other story elements cross.

. Later Trask in his pursuit of the killer has been developing an admiration of his cunning, strength and persona. Having an epiphany after Gordon is found dead, Joe continues the work that Gordon was doing.

Gordon Brown theme: At the Gate

First song reveals him to be a hunter and and community leader. Gordon is deeply loved by the community and he is frequently featured in the media as a great man. He has Mcgruff tattooed on his Arm. Gordons Sister is Sienna Brown. (Pera) She is a musician that tours. She suspects something is amiss in her brother and in a drugged bragging orgy he tells her what he has done. Anikas main morality of life was that there is only one immorality and that is the act of causing suffering to living creatures. (Anika had a daughter that she could not connect to on an emotional basis and could not even say her name.) One must make the decisions of life based on limiting the maximum amount of suffering that can happen to living creatures and do the best to manage the obvious conflicts that ultimately always occur. Sienna is faced with just such a conflict when finding out about her brothers murderous system. She ultimately kills Gordon and takes over the role of Anika (Akina) Trask, the good will googler. She also adopts her morality system.

So the good will googler dies and is replaced. The serial killer dies and is replaced. The stronger story that runs along side has a philosopher chess player and his set of aquaintances. More will be written later.

Steve Kusaba