Transcripts of the Corona Lectures now available

I have received occasional requests for transcripts and audio recordings of the Corona Lectures. While I’ve held off on releasing audio-only, I’ve decided to put together the transcripts as eBooks. Having done the work of compiling the lectures, of being forced to consider them as pieces of writing, most of these I can release at least without embarrassment.

I still think of the writing as transcripts of video lectures — not terribly different from a screenplay — rather than as essays or something like prose poetry. So, while the videos will continue to remain available for anyone to stream for free, I’m making the transcripts available at the shop on my website — https://anthelionprojects.com/shop

Though the Corona Lectures were initiated and executed primarily as video pieces, they had a strong written foundation. Coming into the project as a writer figuring out the recording, editing, and producing aspects of making videos on the fly, it was in the writing that whatever expertise I had needed to be checked, and so where chance operations were called on for guidance. This is much of my justification for releasing the writing independent of the videos. Perhaps some might find it interesting to see the effects of the aleatoric method in action.

It has been interesting to go back and see the lectures develop over the year I was recording them. It was a time of real change in my life and art. Ideas that were half-formed at best took on substance as I was forced to put them into words. Observing how form influenced content has probably permanently changed the way I make art.

If you want to go back and watch any of the video lectures, you can find them collected here: https://anthelionprojects.com/corona-lectures

And if you’re interested in purchasing transcripts of any of the Corona Lectures, you can do so here: https://anthelionprojects.com/shop

If you know anyone who you think might be interested, please let them know. I think some of these lectures still have life in them and might still speak to people in this late-pandemic phase we’re making our way through.