souvenirs from the netherworlds

This morning the alarm clock woke me up from a particularly vivid, if
rather mundane, dream, and for whatever reason I was able to take the
ensuing dialog right into my freshly jarred awake state. As it turned
out, it was one of those rare moments when you hit existential
paydirt; when you get to bring home a souvenir from the netherworld!

Anybody know what a "whint" or a "wint" is?

Sometime before the alarm went off, I had carelessly climbed over a
fence at my grandmother's farm trampling down some electric fence wire
and stuff in the process. This in turn promptly segued into me trying
to fix a light on the porch of the house which I'd also broke climbing
the fence--ah, who needs the niceties of linear and logical narratives
anyway!

I asked my grandmother if she happened to have any small nails,
something like a 6d or so, and she said, "you need a whint", and then
the alarm told me that it was 5:45 AM. So I groggily trudged in the
direction of its incessant nag with the dream lagging about, still
fresh for the taking.

I've had a lot of dreams that have given me oddball knickknacks like
super bizarre number formulas and specific musics that I've never
heard before, but I can seldom bring anything back intact. Once awake,
the dissipation rate is astonishing. Its speed and efficiency never
fail to surprise me.

So while a whint (or a wint) may seem a rather underwhelming trifle in
the cocksure sobriety of the ambulatory state, it's been my experience
that the netherworld is pretty stingy when it comes to sharing
specifics with the waking world.

So, what's a whint? Well, it seemed to be some name for a nail, and it
seemed no more odd at the time than just that either. However, it was
my grandmother, someone I share many profound affinities with, and she
didn't say a nail--she said a whint, so I'll take my chances and
assume she didn't mean a nail... Oh what a curious marvel the
slumbering mind is, and what far-flung corners of nowhere I can find
myself in!

--Dan Stearns

Dan,

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "D.Stearns" <STEARNS@C...> wrote:
> Anybody know what a "whint" or a "wint" is?

Thought you might like to take a look at:

http://www.soleilmoon.com/store/updatesdetail.lasso?update=35

...and read this on the page (the CD is entitled "whint"):

ABSOUTE[LONDON] / TOUCH
03878 FRANCISCO LOPEZ+ ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI Whint 2xCD $14.99
"Francisco López has started his own label, which will release
collaborations between himself and other artists. Due to constant
travelling, Francisco has decided to realize this label with the help
of a few other labels. Therefore, absolute will have branches in
London, Vienna, Osaka, New York City, and Seattle.

Zbigniew Karkowski and Francisco López share a common ground in their
respective work with the physicality of sound through a passionate
approach forcefully devoid of conceptual elements. Raw sonic energy
and an intense focus on the intricacies of sound matter. They both
have a long history of solo work, collaborations and performances all
over the world.

"whint" is their first studio collaboration, recorded by commission of
The Compound in San Francisco. Using white noise as the only sound
source material, they generated and transformed a common pool of
sounds together, and then created two independent pieces in separate
studio rooms. A common sonic spirit and two different compositional
personalities. Two amazing drifting voyages into the same essential
sonic micro-universe of the "sound of all sounds". Ltd edition of 954
copies."

I dunno, maybe could have plugged the name Dan Stearns in there
somewhere! Pretty cosmic. See, your message had something to do with
music, right?

Cheers,
Jon