[...]... I'm 6 Sounding the Event listening but I'm also looking out for that way of knowing that understands by way of a 'letting slip through the fingers' Although the event in question remains 'up in the air', I'm wondering if there is something happening with this poorly grounded indefinite phenomenon that is asking for a re-thinking of what is involved in the attainment of knowledge Remaining 'up in the. .. tree and birds and pine-cones and, perhaps, the time of day entered into composition with each other and became something other than what they were whilst, at the same time, remaining what they were The real subject was the coming about of this becoming, it was the performance of the process of composition The performing subject was the process, and this comprised of nothing but the activity of affecting,... flicker of time The murmuring rises and falls like dancing flames, llke lapping waters appearing, disappearing Appearing, disappearing - yes, the music is beginning and with this comes, perhaps, the first inkling, the first tinkling, of being The murmuring rises and falls and constitutes what can only be called evanescent events Yet it is possible (still don't know how) that the tempo of the murmuring... contingency and it is turbulent What happens here are so many attempted beginnings, so many difficult beginnings that sigh and then die But beginning there is, here and there Perhaps the fluctuation at the tip of the crest will fade away and dissolve into the breathing breeze of background noise; or, perhaps, it is inclined to turn and get bigger And now it is getting bigger, roaringly bigger And now the. .. sounded as a yawning Michel Serres speaks of a 'breathing breeze' and maybe this is what things are based upon, maybe it is the ground of space and time The yawning void: the ground of the world, the backdrop of the universe, the background of being, maybe Hun-dun, or perhaps the primal noise is mur, the French -sounding word for wall Mur: the sound of a wall of indistinguishable sounds; a wall of sound that... looking, looking to understand by seeing, that I forget to listen I forget that I am continually listening -'When the sense of sight is the model of knowing, I am not always thinking If hearing is the model, I am always thinking.'21 And now I take hearing as the model of knowing Now I am all ears And what do I hear? The confusion of my thinking I do not welcome the confusion - it can send me into a spin... pine-cone but rather that there is a continual passing from one to the other That it cannot be told where one begins and the other ends has the effect of making both become other than what they are whilst remaining, in one respect, what they are This becoming is no production of an imitation; rather, what is produced is a zone of indiscernability .' She said that her thinking was still twittering, and. .. what rustles and rumbles at the edges of your words, what can hardly be heard, which, of course, runs the risk of my hearing incorrectly or, indeed, of putting words into the mouth of another Take the risk - that is what I'm hearing you say Yes, Michel Serres, I'm hearing you say that trying to think, trying to produce, presupposes the taking of risks I'm trying to think I'm trying to think the event... nature begins in noise and the old man and his dog die in noise In our clean, crisp and crystal-clear digital age would we rather not hear that nascent nature begins in noise? Would we rather behold our human selves as separate from this? Would we rather forget the mess and noise of our birthings? Would we rather bathe in the hatred that wants so much to wash away and eliminate the muck and chaos of. .. held in low esteem The wholeness of the world requires us to exclude or subdue noise, or at least defer it to the background.'14 Michel Serres speaks of background noise, yet this is no deferral or exclusion of the sound of noise On the contrary: it is there for all There is noise in the subject, in the object, in the observed, in the observer, in the transmitter and in the receiver; it is in being, in