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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: Culm
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 00:16:00 -0400 (EDT)
Culm http://www.asondheim.org/prairie.mp3 http://www.asondheim.org/prairie2.mp3 http://www.asondheim.org/prairie3.mp3 I was thinking through flattening and structure and in soundwork how structure tends towards completion; leave off that final tonic - hear what I mean. Musical and other patterning - neural resonances, tallying of/ across structures; errancy and (re)completion, myth of the return - these drive culture. These drive culture in the presencing present; what passes for memory is reconstruction, resonance, enumeration. So these are harmonica solos slightly (not much) altered - on a simple tremolo harp (I think it's called a "Weekender" - inexpensive Hohner) - all you can do is melody - so what sorts of things w/ tonics and 2nds for example - it's a kind of ongoing maze - It's neither state nor process, it's _abacus._ Culm 1. (Eng.) Anthracite. (Welsh) A kind of coal, of indifferent quality, burning with a small flame, and emitting a disagreeable odor. (Humble). 2. (Penn.) The waste or slack of the Pennsylvania anthracite mines, consist- ing of fine coal, more or less pure, and coal dust and dirt (Raymond). 3.In the usage of many European authors, the Lower Carboniferous or Dinantian series of the Carboniferous system of rocks in Western Europe, especially where consisting largely of siliceous beds with little limestone. (La Forge). Called in Ireland, Calp. Culm bank; Culm dump. A heap or pile of waste kept separate from the rock and slate dumps. - A Glossary of the Mining and Mineral Industry, Fay, 1920. The early science of stratigraphy emphasized surface phenomena; little was known of the interior. So therefore x__________y________x and x reappears and therefore x_____________x where y is not only not transitive, ie. (xy)-(yx) = (x) but is unnecessary altogether. The earth is flattened residue. (You can see where I'm going but you can't see where I've been.) http://nikuko.blogspot.com (Written in a cafe in Santa Ana CA w/ an open mike night - playing against furious guitar playing - singers can't get to the high notes necessary for their equally furious emphasis.)