Art Dirt Redux was a podcast walk around with GH Hovagimyan (me) and Robbin Murphy. After the first sound sampling I began to get my footing and sense the direction of the actual finished podcast. What occurred to me while editing the sound recordings was that one’s memory of any sequence of events in time is not linear but rather presents itself in the mind’s eye as a chunk that has notable events in sharp focus as remembered highlights or incidental occurrences of meaning. The method of linear narrative favored by mass media is not actually true to reality. Indeed the necessity to communicate a message may dictate a linear recounting within time based media but I feel it’s only part of the picture. What seems to me to be more in keeping with both reality and our remembrance is an immersive situation, which has as much non-differentiated sensation and information as it does clear narrative. As I began to edit the sound samples I began to shift around the sounds and the narrative oftentimes layering them and reordering the sequences in time so that both a diachronous and a synchronous time was established for the unfolding of the memory. What occurs for the listener is a sequence whose meaning shifts from narration to immersion and back. This creates a sense where the listener can choose to listen intently to glean meaning or de-focus their attention to feel the totality of the sound.