song for saint ein
i look at you this way
noun then verb
these are my words
i sing to you
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no separation no
the same thing
i am these words
these word say sosomewhere i exist separate from this page
this cage of sounds and signsi am this noise
my voice says so
Friedrich Kittler wrote, “Writing operates by way of a symbolic grid which requires that all ‘data pass through the bottleneck of the signifier.” This is in contrast to analog media which, as Geoffrey Winthrop-Young put it, “process the physical effects of the real”
The optical soundtrack is an analog trace of the sound — the noise — of Nichol’s voice. The Complete Works insists on adding a line to song for saint ein “I am this image…” The optical sound-track forms the spine of The Complete Works. In it we see Nichol’s voice.
The Complete Works 