The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

May 2, 2006


why these?

recuperated older work:

murmer: see chora as well
  real carapace on the virtual
  virtual carapace on the real
chora: see murmer as well
  Deleuze's _pli_
  Kristeva's _chora_
  Wolfram's _automata_
http://www.asondheim.org/murmer.mp4
http://www.asondheim.org/chora.mp4

The theory is within the production of the objects.
Both objects are for sale.
Therefore both objects are the result of production.
Alienated labor: Software as third party/partition.
Exchange value: Digital. bit(n)|bit(m)
Use value: Analog. bite(n,m)

new stuff at the blog below

blog at http://nikuko.blogspot.com - for URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see
http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt - contact sondheim@panix.com, -
general directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org

The usual scam comes to the arts:


Hello, My name is emma pumpin an Artist. I live in Nertherland, with my
two kids,and the love of my life. I have been doing artwork since I was a
small child. That gives me about 23 years of experience. I majored in art
in high school and took a few college art courses. Most of my work is done
in either pencil or airbrush mixed with color pencils. I have recently
added designing and creating artwork on the computer.I have been selling
my art for themany years and have had my work featured on trading cards,
prints and in magazines. I have sold in galleries and to private
collectors from all around the world. But i am always facing serious
difficulties when it comes to selling my art works to Americans,most of
them offer to pay with US POSTAL MONEY ORDER, which is difficult for me to
cash here in Nertherland.

I am looking for a representative in the states who will be working for me
as a partime worker and i will be willing to pay 10% for every
transaction,bu this wouldn't affect your present state of work. Someone
who would help me recieve payments from my customers in the States, I mean
someone that is responsible and reliable, cause think of the cost of
coming to the State just to get payments is very expensive. I am working
on setting up a branch in the States,but as for now i need a
representative in the United State who will be handling the payment
aspect. These payments are in money order and they would come to you in
your name, so all you need do is cash the money order deduct your
percentage and wire the rest back.

But the problem i have is trust,But i have my way of getting anyone that
gets away with our money,i mean the FBI branch in Washington gets involve.
It wouldnt cost you any amount,You are to receive payments which will be
sent to you by fedex or usps from my business patners, which would come in
form of money order then you are to cash it and send the cash to me via
western union money transfer all western union charges will be deducted
from the money. If you are interested,please get back to me as soon as
possible regards

    emma pumpin
    Hello, My name is emma pumpin an Artist. I live in Nertherland, with my
two kids,and the love of my life. I have been doing artwork since I was a
small child. That gives me about 23 years of experience. I majored in art
in high school and took a few college art courses. Most of my work is done
in either pencil or airbrush mixed with color pencils. I have recently
added designing and creating artwork on the computer.I have been selling
my art for themany years and have had my work featured on trading cards,
prints and in magazines. I have sold in galleries and to private
collectors from all around the world. But i am always facing serious
difficulties when it comes to selling my art works to Americans,most of
them offer to pay with US POSTAL MONEY ORDER, which is difficult for me to
cash here in Nertherland.

I am looking for a representative in the states who will be working for me
as a partime worker and i will be willing to pay 10% for every
transaction,bu this wouldn't affect your present state of work. Someone
who would help me recieve payments from my customers in the States, I mean
someone that is responsible and reliable, cause think of the cost of
coming to the State just to get payments is very expensive. I am working
on setting up a branch in the States,but as for now i need a
representative in the United State who will be handling the payment
aspect. These payments are in money order and they would come to you in
your name, so all you need do is cash the money order deduct your
percentage and wire the rest back.

But the problem i have is trust, But i have my way of getting anyone that
gets away with our money,i mean the FBI branch in Washington gets involve.
It wouldnt cost you any amount,You are to receive payments which will be
sent to you by fedex or usps from my business patners, which would come in
form of money order then you are to cash it and send the cash to me via
western union money transfer all western union charges will be deducted
from the money. If you are interested,please get back to me as soon as
possible regards
    emma pumpin

Analog Instrumentation


http://www.asondheim.org/matsu1.mp3 http://www.asondheim.org/matsu2.mp3 
http://www.asondheim.org/matsu3.mp3

Alpine zither. Relationships with ch'in and taksim. With VLF (very low 
frequency) radio "events" which are deeply random, but often possess wave 
trains. With the touch/caress of the resonant body which metaphorically relates 
to elementary physics and the world at large. With elements of air, metal, 
wood. Is theory ever final.

ii Take up: Exchange value: Digital. bit(n)|bit(m) Use value: Analog. bite(n,m) 
once again.

Analog: the bite of the instrument, bight of the shore. Metal pegs tend to 
slip, strings unwind or break, wood cracks, the body expands or contracts 
dependent on humidity, soundboard warps, frets go out of true. The analog is a 
tending. Analog noise: Finger noise, body-tapping, wolf notes, string and nail 
contact positions, nail roughness, breath sounds, string squeak, fret sound, 
fingerboard sound with bending, player's body movements against the soundbox. 
The frequencies are inexact: no frets are ever true, string pressure sharpens 
the pitch, there are a-harmonics and a-harmonic resonances, the instrument 
couples to its support, the fingerboard and body warp slightly with finger 
pressure, oxidations and dirt tender the string further out of true, there is 
always peg slippage with pressure, vibrato and bending stretch imperfect metal 
memory. A tending or movement back towards pitch, pitching as catastrophic 
memory, sudden halting of sound for retuning. The mapping is always imperfect. 
Labor: the labor of the arms, wrists, fingers, body leaning slightly towards 
the fingerboard, careful breathing somewhat isolated from vibrato, muscle 
tensions and memories paralleling dance. Warping: unequal expansion or 
contraction of upper or lower soundboards or instrument sides, twisting of one 
or another surface, unequal expansion or contraction of different woods or 
metals, finger-pressure on one or another surface, expansion or contraction due 
to cracking, humidity, pressure, wood curing, oiling and waxing, physical 
mistreatment.

Digital: Of this at a later date. Electronic noise and noise floors. 
Human-instrument interface. Switch noise. Acoustic coupling of transducers 
including microphones, earphones, speakers. Analog sound 'falling through the 
cracks' depending on bandwidth. Data corruption and technological obsolescence 
of computers and storage media. Problematic power supplies. Problematic of 
analog noise. Problematic of acoustic space-mapping. Standing-waves, speaker 
placement and cone inertia, line losses, failed checksums, bandwidth 
limitations. Digital and digital reproduction.

Generated by Mnemosyne 0.12.