information in Bb

short spoken word piece for "In Bb" project, see http://www.inbflat.net/ and http://www.youtube.com/user/thespinpr...

Information
By Daniel Donahoo (2009)

she closes the lid
and unplugs the device
no bigger than her thumb
from the computer.

My lifes work, she says. But, it isnt her lifes work.

You see, we store information like an Escher painting.
It shouldnt all fit in there. But, it does.
And every day we manage to fit more and more into smaller and smaller spaces until one day
she says,
we will be able to fit all the information the world has
everything that everyone knows and believes and dreams
into nothing.

It will all be there. Stored and filed.
Tagged with any keywords you might imagine.

Our hard drives will be thin air.

They will make nanobots look like elephants.
And elephants will be in there too. Tagged. Accessible with search terms
like grey, ivory,
and the largest land dwelling mammal

We will process away at nothing and understand everything.
We will think of a word and the information will slip in, not through our ears or eyes
but straight thorough our skin. Information will breathe in and out of us,
permeate our skin.

Our knowing will be as deep as it is wide.
You see our work here is to learn so much,

to be so full of knowing,
that all there is left to do is unlearn.

Humanity must get to a point where we let go.
We leave the useless ideas and the spent ideologies in the recycle bin.
like an adolescent brain shedding neurons.
like a snake slithering from its old skin.
like an old man who has come to understand so well the point where reality meets the intangible that he is able to decide which breath will be his last. And, he will enjoy that breath more than any that he has taken in his entire life.

And, her lifes work is more than a four meg flash drive.

My lifes work, she says, is the impact that this has.

This is not about what I produce. It is all about what others receive.

• Category

  Music

[technicallyabsurd]

To me, this is the centerpiece of the In Bb projet.

[ProfessorZomble]

stumbleupon brought me here. i'm so glad it did.

[Skywreckdemon]

This is the centre of the In Bb collab, with all the rest being the accompaniment.

[XthorgoldX]

Creative Commons License.

[csper jk]

Not open source more free media

[TheFarbod95]

Altimeter - Tunnul

I suggest you listen to that on soundcloud, you won't regret it... The quotes from that song is taken from here. :P

[tkdkadir]

Loved this.

[Eduardo Bouças]

This is absolutely amazing. You, sir, are a poet.

[userofyouutube]

dude this shit made me cry....



[timidemerald]

I love the way he reads. I listened to this about 3-4 times before I actually paid attention to what the words were, and it made it more beautiful. Love this.

[worldcomedyproducts]

go to "inbflat.net" its a collab project that uses a bunch of instruments that all sync together and this vocal is in it. its awesome

[MrSeanteq]

"information is all around us, information will permeate our skin" - sounds like DNA, atoms, molecules. This is all information but we didn't create it. Or did we? Are we on a path towards totally recreating our existence and our reality in an altered form? This is a wonderful bit of spoken word, very thought provoking