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I'm Hearing Voices
On subvocalization, the voice in your head, and the music of sentences.
Caroline Tanner
May 2610 min read
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Caroline Tanner
Apr 283 min read
For Philip Guston
I think I cracked the code. Not to Morton Feldman’s, For Philip Guston—I don't know if there's a code to be cracked there. It’s all timeless and primordial, liminal and alien. Listening, I imagined myself in a petri dish, germinating, widening, pre-conscious and pre-linguistic, waiting to hear the right phrase and only then would I explode into sentience. Stuck in the petri dish, scientists in lab coats sticking their noses in my “face,” measuring me, whispering behind my bac
Caroline Tanner
Apr 167 min read
Blood and Guts
Self explanatory.
Caroline Tanner
Apr 103 min read
Soundwalking
I didn’t sleep much last night. Nodded off around 2 a.m. and woke up at 4:30 with Cameron Winter’s,“Vines,” stuck in my head. I listened to it a few times mentally, then in my headphones. I called my mom, the earliest riser I know, around 5. We talked, I got back in bed around 6, and tried to sleep—no luck. At 6:30 I got up, showered, changed, ate, and by 7 I was out the door, soundwalking. I generated two prompts. First, to follow someone as long as I could, then stay in th
Caroline Tanner
Apr 14 min read
Lovely
Lovely, as I skip a stone and break the surface, circles working their way across the stream to either side.
Caroline Tanner
Mar 295 min read
Concert Review: Talkshow at Roulette
A review of Talkshow, an avant-garde project by musicians Steph Richards and Qasim Naqvi.
Caroline Tanner
Mar 274 min read
Hiraeth
I leave and I return and I feel less and less like a person of a place every time.
Caroline Tanner
Mar 164 min read
Only Children
We were always doing things together, him and I. In harmony. Always predicting the other's next move.
Caroline Tanner
Mar 93 min read
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