Unknown Transformation (John Dotson’s dream of February 12, 2018)
I am feeling tensions about everything going right—particularly the technology. We are recording on a state-of-the-art 15-inch reel-to-reel at 15ips.
As we are nearly through with a most powerful rendering of the whole script, I am nervous that there may have been a technical problem and that the session was somehow not recorded at all, or it is not usable. There is no doing this over, no repeating the power of what has happened.
When the final word is said, I quickly check the tape and am vastly relieved that everything is okay. The quality is not absolutely perfect, but it is very very good, and we can proceed.
Now I must return to the wider transition process—a quantum transformation of the existing broadcast/performance scenario into another mode. This requires creating and placing careful handwritten instructions all around the control rooms.
It is not evident what the ultimate transformation is going to be. I am not even sure who the instructions are for.