Inhabiting the Sound Gaps

By Stephen Bett

I said see, C.C. Rider
Oh, see what you have done

You slipped ma’ disc, sailor grrl
Chopper Couture din’t stand a chance

Well now see, see see rider
. . . SEE what you have done

thIN diff: dis ultra–tiny–tinny fit
you DISappeared, gap in the hall a’ . . .
holla!

I said see, see see rider (see, see rider)
see what you done done

Doubly (& parenthetically) minced
coma zone–out in my comma

Très infrathin of infra–thin & infra thin
the ol’ miRRor image RE–flect E–ffect overload

So whose fleet feet turns the page
tha’s extreme tenuity (ThieRRy Davila)

published Dec 17, 2010, at 11:22 am
updated Dec 17, 2010, at 11:22 am

Same Diff times t’ree — w/in da minute
one & one & two & two

Inhabit every in ter val (a hey hey)
C. — gap — C. at sea, oh see here sailor grrl

You are that dancin’ sound

Slippered outta dat vis U al hegemony
some différance, n’est pas?

The hear of her•e•sy
what you just Undone

Yas hear don’t see it
Surfer•Grrl*

*Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels’ version of “See See Rider” (aka “C.C. Rider”); C.C., as in Chopper Couture (chopper apparel, huh?); several commentators on Marcel Duchamp’s infrathin or inframince concept, easily googled — among them: quoting Thierry Davila, curator of the Museum of Modem & Contemporary Art (Geneva); David Zerbib’s review of Davila’s book Infrathin: Bref histoire de I’imperceptible, de Marcel Duchamp . . . (published & updated within the minute, note); Paul Matisse (step–son of Duchamp, & grandson of Henry Matisse, collected & published Duchamp’s notes under the title Inframince: “inframince [is] the very lastness of things . . . [the] frail and final minimum before reality disappears”