Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.63.0604102318440.11427@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: yearn 1.5*
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:19:26 -0400 (EDT)
yearn 1.5* the last of the alpine zithers and difficulties in major thirds of course this gives you a sixth to play with it's the sixth that provides the leading tones here everything was retuned and difficulties increase the soundboard expands and contracts constantly retuning how often do you say 'stop that' to a piece of wood in any case the tonic is present and just out of reach in other words you might think of phenomenology of the foundation the foundation is present and elsewhere and fills one with yearning coming home is always already a detour http://www.asondheim.org/yearn1.mp3 http://www.asondheim.org/yearn2.mp3 http://www.asondheim.org/yearn3.mp3 http://www.asondheim.org/yearn4.mp3 http://www.asondheim.org/yearn5.mp3 http://www.asondheim.org/yearn6.mp3 you're tired of these yes no relax they'll take you home and follow through on the six what order and what absence of order the three halftone gap between sixth and octave says 'hello' says 'hello' i know you're waiting something to happen or fall music falls and catches you just like that you move around to the spotty rhythm hup hup hup now then please notice the space of the hollow of the soundbox it's resonating everywhere in the later pieces it's saying 'you're playing the fundamental temperature of the universe' it's saying 'welcome to the background microwave radiation' it's saying 'and its anomalies' close your eyes and the primordial washes over you it's in the gap of 1.5 yes and no of the fraying of ratios the primordial shudders in resonance with the music raga rasa yes no I've already said too much! (see also http://nikuko.blogspot.com )