SonicAnta: EYE DEARS

Tired of baking in the summer heat?

Then SonicAnta's got just the cooling relief your fevered mind is craving.

Thanks to an unprecedented and historic joint collaboration between SonicAnta and The Two Sun Sin Phony Orgestra, for a limited time you are now invited to join The Tucson Electric Fan Appreciation Society (T.E.F.A.S.)

Membership includes a T.E.F.A.S. Certificate of Membership suitable for framing, and a copy of Electric Fan Sound Works, a thirty minute odyssey into white noise and beyond.

This recording was created by mic-ing and recording an oscillating Honeywell electric fan with a variety of microphones strategically placed to "play-up" the fan's assorted tones, drones and nuances.

Those tracks were then processed and mixed into a single work which best represents an immersive electric fan event.
It is the hope of The Tucson Electric Fan Appreciation Society (T.E.F.A.S.) that this recording will open the door to your own personal discoveries, observations and enjoyment of the fans swirling around you everyday.

So what are you waiting for?

JOIN T.E.F.A.S. TODAY!

And as an added incentive, if you order today, an additional mystery disc will be included at no additional charge.

So dim the lights, find a cool comfortable place, ideally between two speakers, breathe deep and enjoy the fan.

(Note: This recording is also being issued as part of the SonicAnta D-Construction Series. Subscribers to the series receive the disc and automatic acceptance into the T.E.F.A.S. at no extra charge.)

A new instrument was born this week.






























A low rez poor quality clip here for now...
http://www.sonicanta.com/music-62.html
Stay tuned for further more.

For those of you who may have missed it, David Byrne of Talking Heads fame has been doing some wonderfully innovative work in challenging perceptions about what is music, noise and/or an instrument.

Recently a video of him playing a building in NYC with a modified pump organ was posted on boing-boing and youtube (see below).

What I found intriguing, almost more so than the work itself, was the so-called "controversy" about whether it was music or noise.

Nothing new in the "you call that art?" argument of course.

It's been around since the first cave person banged out a beat on a hollow log.

"What you call that music? My cave kid can do that."

Then BAM! the clubs came out and another step in our collective de-evolution was underway.

Deeply seeing, hearing and being has never been for everyone.

That's why Shiva invented ear plugs and blinders.

But when someone named pascodedhed emailed me asking: "Why don't you record yourself taking a shit and call that music?"

It got me to thinking: "Now there's an eye dear."

Mic-ing a bathroom then broadcasting it live into a gallery space (and vice-versa) might have possibility.

Of course the installation would have to be done in Flushing Meadows.

Anyhow, kudos to David for trying to open some ears.

Be sure to check out the video. It's worth the eye time.

And who knows, maybe we can figure out a way to bring that organ to the US/Mexico border and install it on the wall some day?

Now wouldn't that be something...

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A Live Concert Review

Where: Tucson, Arizona, USA
Time: Noon
Date: 5/21/08

I'm sitting out back sipping tea in the tree shade for this outdoor show and I've gotta say this is one outstanding performance.

Temps are already over 90 and these north-eastern-southern-westerly winds are flowing through in bone shaking gusts.

Every wind chime for miles around is clanging in a Mad Hatter spoon-against-the-tea-pot kind of way.

But does that deter the mocking birds from their mission of predation and fornication and song?

Not at all.

In fact they seem to thrive on these winds that could make a musician contemplate taking a screw driver to his or her favorite instrument and mutating it in some desired fashion with hardware store wires and a handful of sound springs.

A dust devil at least 300 feet high, or so it seems, swirls into form and lifts trash and dust and dried flowers high to the point of disappearing over neighbors walls and fences.

With the natural world in motion the unnatural world abides.

The main road traffic sounds transform into oceanic waves, crashing and rumbling.

Occasional jet engines strain for control, a symphony of bowed exertions.

Hard to say if this is even the first or second set anymore.

Seems to be an ongoing affair.

A forever concert.

Somewhere a cricket in the oleanders applauds.

A dog howl follows and the feral neighborhood rooster crows.

I want to hold up my lighter but am afraid the whole place will go up in flames.

Hopefully someone is taping this.

What is the sound of one foot clapping?

In 2006 Phil Hargreaves and I released: FRIDAY MORNING EVERYWHERE.

OILAL is a track from that recording.

Initially OILAL had been about twenty minutes or so in length after I'd stretched Phil's vocals into the vortex.

Eventually we wound up cutting it down to about four minutes, but someday I hope the whole thing will see light of day.

OILAL has a strange vibe.

Anyway, Phil recently sent over some images from Liverpool, England and I blended them with some footage from Tucson, USA.

The result I thought was suitably strange for OILAL.

Enjoy.

1. WALL-TUNG DRUM
2. WALL PIANO
3. WALL-WIND HARP
4. WALL-A-PHONE

Two years ago this May, The Anta Project was born.

I wish I could say I knew the moment I applied my cello bow to the Nogales wall and drew those first raspy drones that a global transformation of the US/Mexico border was underway.

But I honestly hadn't a clue.

I simply thought it would be an interesting experiment to embark upon.

Could a symbol of division be transformed into an instrument whose sound was capable of creating unity and awareness while challenging our ideas about borders and identity?

It was a mystery at the time, but today, with listeners from roughly 100 countries having downloaded roughly 100 gigs of sound and images I'm pretty confident it is working.

On a personal note, I have been fortunate to meet many wonderful people via The Anta Project who have generously shared their ideas, comments and support.

I've also found myself immersed in some rewawrding collaborative endeavors and it has all been very humbling.

While I could go on forever, I want to focus on my two year collaboration with Nogales, Sonora artists Alberto Morackis and Guadalupe Serrano from
Murales Frontera.

We met in Tucson shortly after The Anta Project was released, and Alberto and Guadalupe said they were interested in my ideas about transforming the border into an instrument since they were doing something similar with sculpture.

I asked them if they would want to try blending our interests by building an oversized "wall piano" or kalimba which could be affixed directly to the Mexico side of the wall.

At the time we first met we also had high aspirations for creating an international arts event on both sides of the border.

Alberto, Guadalupe and I discussed the potential economic opportunities an international art event would create for the communities on both sides of the border.

We also talked about it being an opportunity to change the incorrect perception that Nogales is a place with little more to offer other than human smuggling, drugs and day tourism.

We met with Casa de Cultura in Nogales, Sonora and I presented them with a detailed and perhaps overly ambitious proposal for an event that included music, art, interactive events and performance.

Sadly for various reasons, both political and economic, the event did not take place.

This year the process was once again put into play and a couple of meetings in Tucson and Nogales yielded more ideas and people interested in participating.

At the center of this "event" has been the core idea of building a handful of oversized instruments and attaching them to the Mexico side of the wall, transforming it physically into a sprawling resonator.

Whether an event in October takes place or not is still not known.

As a guerilla sound artist, I do what I want on my own budget, which is often minimal at best.

Because I can work cheaply, grants and other funding sources have never impacted my ability to create or take action.

I use whatever materials and tools are available.

The world is my instrument and I love working with junk and found objects.

And in this freedom I credit The Anta Project's success.

However, building a sculpture and launching an event around it which would require funding with many hands in the pie was/is something alien to me.

Today I was pleased to learn from Alberto via email that he and Guadalupe have decided to go ahead with my designs (Also a huge design shout-out should go toPadma Sound System sound pioneer Lewis Humphreys/ Yeshe Dorje for his stellar thoughts about building a wall-wind harp).

Below and above are links to the sketches so far.

As anyone who works with metal knows, prototypes require some trial and error.

So I'm sure this will be an organic process.

There is work to be done but I think we're off and running.

I look forward to see where Alberto and Guadalupe take this next.

If you are interested in building similar instruments on the walls where you live, contact me via email and I'll be happy to collaborate/share details.

Now further into year three!

What will be?

Stay tuned and in touch.

Glenn

1. WALL-TUNG DRUM
2. WALL PIANO
3. WALL-WIND HARP
4. WALL-A-PHONE

Time has sped up again in a swirl of passing images, sounds and sensations.

Summer's heat is not far away and the desert knows it.

Spring winds blow incessantly.

Bird's mate, hatch from eggs and commit fratricide all in the name of progress, filling first light with a manic dawn chorus.

The new growth from winter rain is drying out, dispersing next generation seeds for the monsoon waters to expand.

And in this time I'm floating.

The trip north to Flagstaff earlier this month for the RMCLAS conference cleansed the mind and lungs of dust and lethargy.

It was wonderful to meet so many good people with fresh ideas and enthusiasm for the transformation and exploration of borders and human dynamics.

But there were volcanoes there too.

Places where black lava lay in frozen waves near the remains of ancient homes built from mud and stone.

To the north, in a solitary place along the rim of the vast crevasse that is the Grand Canyon, a perfect place to lay and listen with closed eyes was discovered.

Cool breezes rising up from the depths and mingling with the pines led to a cathartic nap beneath the midday sun. Awakening reborn to the creaking flutters of passing ravens was just the soulful rejuvenation I needed.


If all goes according to plan --- And what ever does? --- the coming months may bring some interesting announcements, collaborations and assorted doings.

Should be fun.

But till then, stay tuned and in touch.

Anta Blog

My name is Glenn Weyant.

I am a self-Googler.

Like masturbation or drinking alone, self-Google-ing and discussion of it's merits is often frowned upon in polite society.

It'll make you blind.

You'll grow horns and hairy palms.

And so on.

Yet we all do it from time-to-time.

And those who claim they don't are often the ones who do it most of all.

But I digress as usual.

One upside to self-Google-ing is the discovery of new and wonderful sites.

Here are a few blogs worth a repeated look.

PROVISIONS

From time-to-time The Anta Project receives a blog mention.

It is always an honor to learn that someone has found value in The Anta Project.

Especially from one such as Signal Fire.

Signal Fire: A Blog For The Arts of Social Change is the blog of Provisions, a social change learning resource that amplifies compelling voices that challenge and redefine the mainstream.

Defiantly favorites-worthy.

BORDERLORE

BorderLore is the blog of Maribel Alvarez, a University of Arizona professor and social scientist who is also the author of the always informative and occasionally irreverent BorderLore newsletter.

I've been fortunate to meet with Maribel a couple of times and she is incredibly supportive and knowledgeable about arts, activism and politics.

(Are they really three separate categories?)

Be sure to check out her recent entry about the latest comic book release of Migrantes!

TUCSON QUERIDO

Want to know more about things to do in Arizona from the perspective of someone who is doing them?

Then Tucson Querido is worth a visit.

As the author notes: "What makes this blog special? It's a great guide to Tucson because it provides "reviews" that have nothing to do with money, advertising or tourism councils. It's written and photographed mostly out of my love and fascination for these places."

STARTLING MONIKER

I've mentioned It's Too Damn Early, DaveX's weekly experimental radio program originating in Southern Illinois as must-hear.

I should have also mentioned Startling Moniker as a must-read resource if you are interested in music, noise, sound and all the permutations.

Where else are you going to hear and read about set lists that have the makings of a Bill Burroughs haiku?

Eight Frozen Modules,
Wondrous Horse.
Lexaunculpt Squid,
Arcane Fist.


D-Construction Series: April Installment ~ The Sea of Cortex

For those of you who have subscribed to the Sonicanta D-construction Series, April's installment (The Sea of Cortex) should be in the mail on the 28th.

The Sea of Cortex is a selection of works drawn from two year's worth of sonic experiments.

Heavily processed ambient tracks are layered beside raw, one-take journeys.

Over thirty sound sources (AND NO SYNTHESIZERS!) contributed to these tracks including: The Blu-Blu, Kestrel 920, prepared guitar, piano, steel cans and drums, assorted wires, feedback, radio signals, horns, tapes, bells and a cast of lost and found objects.

At this point selections will not be made available as downloads for logistics reasons.

But not to fear, with the May installment the download sample tradition should resume in full.

The Point Of Power

A new Power Point PDF about The Anta Project from RMCLAS has been uploaded.

The PDF version lacks the sounds etc. that the Power Point includes, however, it should hopefully give you some idea of the where this has been and where it is headed.

4/08 PPT UPDATE

Then you must be built upside down...

So the winter rains brought a bounty of wildflowers, but the recent dry winds have been whiping up a toxic stew of dust and pollen that has left me feeling like an extra on the set of Scanners.

(Check out the accompanying photo of my boots after a recent hike for pollen details).

Sure, one or two good sneezes can be cathartic.

But five or six in a row, repeatedly, seems to bring on an interesting form of madness.

On the upside, I have been noticing a few musical hallucinations creeping in with each nasal explosion.

Of course they may just be a byproduct of having read Oliver Sacks' new book: Musicophilia.

Hard to say.


Anyway through this fog a few pecked notes:

In The Blog

The Anta Project had a fun mention on Deputy Dog this week.

The desert sonic excursion was juxtaposed by DaveX (professional, licensed raconteur) with Terje Isungset’s wonderful frozen sound work: Iceman Is.


All the details can be found at: Deputy-Dog.com.

D-Construction Update

The first installment of the D-Construction Series has hit the postal by-ways. Everyone who subscribed should be receiving two discs (the scheduled release and a bonus mystery disc) via Priority Mail at their doorstep. Next month's discs and ephemera should be hit the skies on April 29.

Flagstaff Bound

This Saturday, April 12, if you happen to be in Flagstaff, be sure to stop by and say hello.

I'll be at the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies 2008 Conference where the weekend lineup of presentations looks outstanding.

The Anta Project presentation will be part of a Saturday session titled: Borders, Fences, and Immigration Policies.

Details are below. Hope to see you there.

Borders, Fences, and Immigration Policies

Chair: Glenn Weyant (Anta Project)

1. Riley Merline (University of Arizona), “A Century of Border Fence Construction and Community Transformation: Ambos Nogales, 1898-1998”

2. Prescott Vandervoet (University of Arizona), “Los peligros del desierto: víboras, alacranes, y coyotes”

3. Larman C. Wilson (American University, Emeritus), “The Death of the Senate’s 2007 Immigration Reform Bill: A Post Mortem”

4. Glenn Weyant (Anta Project), “A Look at the Transformation and Deconstruction of the United State Border Wall in Nogales, Arizona, Symbolically, Metaphorically and Literally via Art and Educational Narrative”

Howdy folks,

Spring has arrived in the Sonoran Desert once again, buoyed upon shifting waves of crazy Oz-woven wild flower quilts in techni-color cartoon brillance.

To celebrate, I've posted three new downloads built with radio signals, a wheezing perfectly-out-of-tune pump organ from roughly 1900, birds, trains, wind, piano and found objects percussed and manipulated for your aural consideration HERE (The March O Ate Constructions).

The lo-fidelity clips are culled from extended hi-fidelity tracks featured in this month's installment of the SonicAnta D-Construction Sound Subscription Series.

"Great blistering barnacles!" I hear some of you exclaim, spewing smoke and fire from your ears. "What in the name of this great tarnished nation is the SonicAnta D-Construction Sound Subscription Series?"

Well, I'm glad you asked....

For a single installment of just $50, subscribers to the SonicAnta D-Construction Sound Series receive 10 audio discs over a twelve month period (roughly one a month, sometimes more) featuring hi-fidelity full-length constructions of the excerpts posted, plus material found nowhere else.

That works out to $5 (or less) per disc.

But perhaps best of all, these discs will not be offered anywhere else or ever again through the series, making them instantly collectable.

But if collectible discs delivered almost monthly to your front door sounds too good to be true, then let me put on my best latex Ron Popeil mask to state: "But wait. There's MORE!"

Sure, these discs may not slice, dice or Julian Salad very well, but subscribers will also enjoy occasional random bonus material goodies with each mailing such as additional discs, dvds, paperback books, a semi-regular newsletter (The SonicAnta Trans-Border Flyer), original images and other etcetera and ephemera.

So what do you say?

Ready to take the plunge and help support independent sound exploration while getting some of the finest sonic ear candy found nowhere else?

You are?

Well then you better hold on to your eyeballs because... yep you guessed it... THERE'S EVEN MORE!

That's right, subscribe today and you will receive as a special thank you, the full, 56 minute March O Ate Construction as your first installment plus a very special mystery bonus disc.

Okay so what are you waiting for?

You get the discs, the schwag, and the simple joy of getting unexpected stuff in the mail each month.

Not to mention that as the dollar continues to plummet your investment in SonicAnta can only grow over time.

Subscribe to the SonicAnta D-Construction Series.

Till again, stay tuned and listen deep.

Glenn

Another installment in the latest video series: Work For Prepared Guitar And Assorted Flowers.

Enjoy.

The Ever Expanding List Of Countries And Assorted Entities Tuned In

As many of you already know, The Anta Project/SonicAnta is being embraced by listeners globally.

From what I can tell, it is mostly a "viral" expansion from one person to the next.

Watching this project grow without the shackles of corporate backing and with minimal financial investment has been very gratifying.

Thank you for tuning in and spreading the word.

The farther this goes the closer we get. Tag: You're IT.



From Where People Listen:

Algeria
Angola
Argentina
Azerbaijan
Australia
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Bolivia
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Brazil
Brunei Darussalam
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Canada
Czech Republic
China
Chile
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cote D'Ivoire
Croatia (Hrvatska)
Cyprus
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
Estonia
Fiji
Finland
France
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Guatemala
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Korea (South)
Kyrgyzstan
Kuwait
Lao People's Dem. Rep.
Latvia
Lebanon
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Maldives
Malta
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Montserrat
Morocco
Netherlands
New Zealand (Aotearoa)
Nicaragua
Niue
Norway
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russian Federation
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
Saudi Arabia
Seychelles
Singapore
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Switzerland
Sweden
Syria
Taiwan
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad & Tobago
Turkey
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Viet Nam
Yugoslavia
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Also...
US Government
US Military
Old Style Arpanet

Logan Phillips, poet, artist and Jack-Of-All-Etcetera recently posted a video on YouTube remixing a segment of drone from The Anta Project with "Como Yo Soy Tan Raro" by Vargas Vil and video he and Moisés Regla
shot in Mexico City.

In Logan's words: "Zócalo Cochise" is a short meditation on twin environments: the thriving city near where (I make my) home, and the deep desert where (I) was born."

More of Logan's work can be found at: www.dirtyverbs.com

Enjoy.

As most of you know, I was fortunate to perform a work on the Kestrel 920 during a lecture event at The Arizona Senior Academy, nestled in the foothills of Rincon Mountains east of the city.

DOWNLOAD SOLO TRACK.

The show, part of the Chamber Music PLUS Arizona Cultural Forum series, had a turnout which included a diverse group of people with a life-long passion for sound and music.

Following the sound sculpture and a brief question and answer period, I encouraged the audience to come up and give the Kestrel 920 a try.



Which they did.

Enthusiastically.

Much too often life and art is compartmentalized.

This is for the young.

This is for the old.

This is for those who are neither of the above.

And so on. And so forth. And etc. And blather.

But at the ASA gig I was honored to see everyone's enthusiasm and interest in sound/music/instruments transcend that artificial barrier.


Post gig I think I may have enjoyed the subsequent conversations with the audience about as much as the opportunity to create a sound sculpture.

There was also a fun opportunity to do a duet with Steven Romaniello on Theremin and see how the two instruments meshed without a net.

DOWNLOAD DUO TRACK.

Much thanks to Harry Clark and James Reel of Chamber Music PLUS Southwest for pulling this all together and including the Kestrel 920 in their vision of transformation.

Something is going on indeed...

Okay so now that the New Jersey (Yes, New Jersey NOT New York dammit!) Giants have won the Super Duper Bowl and the last presidential wannabes are strutting and preening and coiffing for your vote on Super Special Happy Tuesday, perhaps a sonic high colonic of the central nervous system is in order?

If so... then the Chamber Music PLUS Arizona Cultural Forum 2008 has just what you need this weekend (see below) to blow out the pipes.

There will be a slew of fascinating events, but in the myopic world of sonicanta I'm pleased to be building a Kestrel 920 sound sculpture on Friday and am looking forward to an improvised duet with Steven Romaniello on Theremin later the same day.

A limited 10 disc cd-r run will also be available for sale during the show, featuring some of my stranger sound journeys culled from a variety of sources and instruments of mass percussion built but not released in the year that was.

All sales will go to benefit Chamber Music PLUS.

That is all for now.

Till then, be there or be square, stay tuned and in touch.

Shalom.

Glenn

With Double-Oh-Seven safely tucked away and filed under unexpected successfully experienced, Double-Oh-Eight now steps from the starting gate, simultaneously slinking and strutting with new possibility.

Glancing backwards, in Double-Oh-Seven SonicAnta was fortunate to travel to universities, become embedded in The South, and be covered in web, video, radio and print media.

If everything goes according to what's unplanned, in addition to the usual slew of free downloads slated for release, a new disc should be birthed this spring, along with at least two large scale performance possibilities, plus further installments of the EXTRACTED EARTH: A Sonic Work Without Listeners limited edition box set.

On the immediate radar, I'm honored to have been asked to sculpt some sound with the Kestrel 920 on Feb. 8 at The 4th Annual Arizona Cultural Forum 2008, presented by Chamber Music PLUS SW (Arizona Senior Academy, 13701 East Old Spanish Trail,10 am – 12:15 pm, Free and Open to the Public).

The event will include a work for Theremin and joint improvisation for Theremin and Kestrel 920. There will also be a talk titled: Amplification and the Human Ear by Daniel R. Boone, Ph.D. which will take a look at the ear and the physiology of how we hear.

Before signing off, I'd like to thank everyone who has helped share/pass along The Anta Project/ SonicAnta.com to listeners in over 100 countries, promoting discussions about sound, borders and our universal global human condition as migrants.

Because of you, hundreds of discs and nearly 80 gigs of sound have been given away since the site went live in 2006. The opportunity to share these downloads and ideas is an honor for which I am extremely grateful.

Below is a short list of links (in no particular order, hopefully all working, and apologies in advance to anyone omitted), to some of the people whose thoughts and visions were influential in helping make Double-Oh-Seven what it was for The Anta Project/ SonicAnta.com and which I think you'll find worth exploring further.

So stay tuned, in touch, have a great year and as always thank you for your support.

Glenn

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1. http://home.mchsi.com/~itde/ -
A bastion of sonic adventure subverting the heartland.

2. www.theartgalleryofknoxville.com/ -
Every town should have one.

3. http://asthmatickitty.com/music.php?releaseID=82 -
One of my favorite discs in 007.

4. www.signaltonoisemagazine.org -
THE source for experimental and improvised music.

5. http://maaheli.ee/ -
Inspiring sonic ideas elaborately woven and deeply ingrained.

6. www.ronsen.org/monkminkpinkpunk/ -
A must read Web zine.

7. www.antral.net -
Subtly beautiful images in transition.

8. www.deeplistening.org/pauline/ -
This IS what Deep Listening is all about.

9. www.myspace.com/mittimus2 -
Connecticut Gods of Thunder, Light and Driftwood Bass.

10. www.subtopia.blogspot.com/ -
The blog of life during wartime.

11. www.dyslexistential.blogspot.com/ -
What is the sound of an aural cyclist writing?

12. www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096412953 -
The film by Carlos DeMenezes no one wants you to see.

13. www.tucsonunderground.com/ -
A Cia Romano joint documenting Tucson as no other site does or can.

14. www.csw.utk.edu/about/stimulus/enhanced/2007_fall/youthinitiatives.html
- A roundup of the Knoxille, TN installation.

15. www.cmpsouthwest.org/ -
Innovative and contemporary programming melding multiple art forms north of the border.

16. www.kuat.org/misenplace.cfm?ID=865 -
Much thanks to Soo Lee for her coverage of SonicAnta/The Kestrel 920 and Tucson arts.

17. http://kuat.org/ondemand/listen/azspotlight.cfm -
Arizona Spotlight journalist Mark McLemore, also of Ghost Cow fame
( www.ghostcow.com/band/index.html ), did a nice job covering SonicAnta.

18. http://cdbaby.com/found?allsearch=%22glenn+weyant%22 -
Helping keep SonicAnta financially alive.

19. www.tunnelsinger.com/ -
Hauntingly simple and deeply beautiful music.

20. www.southboundsarah.blogspot.com/ -
The journal of one migrant headed south.

21. www.barrychabala.com/chabala/ -
An alchemist who melts six strings into one with minimally explosive ideas.

22. www.muralesfrontera.org/ -
Nogales, Sonora border artists and border wall kalimba resonator collaborators.

23. www.whi-music.co.uk/ -
Ringmaster and sonic pioneer extraordinaire.

24. Buck Hoffman - Acoustic blues and deep space (no link but worth a listen if you can find him).

25. www.myspace.com/smileyandthelovedawg -
Best thing you'll hear off or on Exit 65.

26. www.borderlinks.org -
Doing wonderful work.

Turned forty-four this week on a day saturated in cold desert rains and snow, perfect weather for a trip into the mountains on foot.

Began in darkness, stumbling over slick stones, past watching ocotillo and saguaro silhouettes, floating ice crystals melting into my headlamp.

Petroglyphs and abandoned mines waited for rediscovery in this place of molten minerals immobilized, volcanic ash, uplift and shallow sea remains.

Moving into dawn, encased in spherical luminescence, observed by animals imagined upon hills and within burrows, heartbeat pounding steadily, thoughts drifted and dissipated as the elevation gained and the newly frosted sun rose in opalescence, illuminating a land of vapor and earth.


Headlight off and stowed, shrink-wrapped in rain gear, a peak broke the gauze veil and a path appeared.

From the west, columns of storms relentlessly made their way into the new day, engulfing hills and horizon, rising into encompassing space.

Oscillating valid rain and liquid snow blew vertically, beating a staccato counterpoint to the rhythm of my heart.

Lost in conception while crossing a narrow ridge, the summit became a destination, an island of stone in a sea of ether, somewhere between now and then, not quite real but fully being in a traveling sky filled with galloping ghosts and transitive rain dragons calling.


I had ascended fully into clouds and it was a good time to live or die.

Paparazzi lightning flashes prickled thin skin, encasing bones and blood, whispering winds howled sweetly and the moment to continue on further arrived.

Descending from this place of clouds like a waterlogged Moses, I melted into the drizzling desert again, head full of thoughts and nothing, stepping photometrically forward into the mystery of what would be.

The Glitch Meditations

As some of you know, I own an inexpensive laptop that, like myself, suffers from occasional memory stress.

Recently I've discovered a new random chaos technique which involves loading a music program with .wav files much too large for the computer's memory to handle.

I then save the tracks into a single file. During that process a computer "glitch" shortens some tracks into loops, fragments others, and in general performs tasks not requested.

Embracing the "glitch" has allowed me to enter into a true collaboration with my computer.

In these creative ventures the computer human relationship has been subverted from slave and master to creative partners.

The three meditations from our recent collaborations are availableHEAR. (Scroll down below The Anta Project downloads).

Embrace the glitch.

Would You Die For A Job?

Over the past year or so, The Anta Project has fostered communication opportunities with people from around the world who are interested in the rich tapestry of ideas this work presents.

The nexus of borders, sound creation, migration, artistic and human empowerment, symbolic transformation and listening (to name just a few of the key points) is apparently universal, and has led to some interesting areas of conversation.

When discussing The Anta Project with people who are not from Tucson (and some who are), I've been consistently struck by how little is known about the border deaths that occur in the Sonoran Desert each year.

When people learn the number is only the "official" body count, that is, only the bodies that have been found so far, the point seems to really hit home.

So for those of you who are interested in learning more about migrant deaths in the desert along the US/Mexico border, here are a few missing links that might help with perspective.

The Arizona Daily Star, one of the local daily pubs has been keeping a tally of the numbers in the Tucson sector.

Another local paper covering migrant deaths isThe Tucson Citizen.

According to onefinding, roughly 1.5 Mexican nationals die trying to enter the United States every day.

Perhaps not so surprising: Increased "security" has actually been leading to increased border deaths as migrants are forced to take greater risks when crossing into the Unites States.

According toanother report: "The increase in border crossing deaths has taken place since the implementation in 1994 of the Southwest Border Strategy under the Clinton administration, but has escalated sharply since 2000. According to a report from the University of Arizona, 802 bodies were found in the desert between 2000 and 2005, compared to 125 between 1990 and 1999. That total has now risen to more than 1,000, according to a recent report. The figure does not include those who died on the Mexican side of the border."

I encourage people interested in knowing more to do their own research and draw their own conclusions, but one other site worth checking out is from the U.S. Government Accountability Office(GAO).

In particular the paragraph which notes: "...the Border Patrol needs to continue to improve its methods for collecting data in order to accurately record deaths as changes occur in the locations where migrants attempt to cross the border— and consequently where migrants die."

Long after the earth is consumed by the sun, obliterated by wayward space rocks, or falls prey to demolition in a munitions meltdown, Earthly radio waves will slog into infinity projecting the ghost reality of what a wonderful world this was.

Earlier this month DaveX, host ofIt's Too Damn Early, a sonically adventurous weekly radio program on WDBX 91.1FM in Southern Illinois, launched the US/Mexico border via the Anta Project into the great beyond.

It's was hard not to smile reading his blog entry.

"I finally got a serious chunk of Glenn Weyant’s amazing “Anta Project” on the show. The Anta Project, which boils down masses of Weyant’s recording of his performances at (and ON) the US/Mexico border, will probably be the last straw for Homeland Security who are growing tired of ripping open all the weird packages you people send me. In my defense, please send more– it is my theory that if we keep them busy examining my mail, that they’ll leave Glenn alone to continue his incredible work. After you mail off your goodies, bop over to the SonicAnta site, and check out some of the recordings for yourself. Good stuff!"

But this was the part that left me muttering: "Shit yeah!"

"In less depressing news, I just picked up a new listener, whose computer headphones somehow began picking up my broadcast as he worked this morning. I just got a call from this fellow, who started receiving the accidental transmission sometime during Glenn Weyant’s “Anta Project” recordings, and was surprised to hear my voice tell him about the Sonoran Desert. Yeah, that might freak me out a little too! Anyhow, he wisely followed what the voices in his head told him, and called in to find our spot on the radio. What a terrific introduction to “It’s Too Damn Early!”

You've heard The Kestrel 920, The Blu-Blu and The Nailed Board in
action on a number of Sonicanta recordings.

Perhaps someday there will be a world tour.

But for now you can see them all in action at:

http://www.kuat.org/misenplace.cfm?ID=865

The video profile on The Kestrel 920 and assorted sonic doings was
broadcast on Tucson's public television news program Arizona
Illustrated.

Personally, I thought arts reporter Sooyeon Lee did a really
wonderful job of maintaining the delicate balance between keeping the
subject entertaining for a wide audience while also presenting the
work with sincerity and integrity.

If you enjoyed this segment and you're in Tucson or have access to
KUAT programming, be sure to check out their "ARTe" program premiering
on October 9 at 9 p.m. Check local listings for more details.

The Oct. 9 broadcast is slated to feature Howard Terpning, Jay
Dusard, Annie Bunker, David Tineo, and concertmaster, Steven Moeckel.