Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0811150011060.27939@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: On */this/* music
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:11:32 -0500 (EST)
On */this/* music Every session piece is equivalent to every other; every session piece uses every conceivable note on the instrument; every notes sequence is adjacent to every note sequence; playing fast eliminates thought; playing faster transforms understood patterns into fast-forward bridging towards unknowns; playing fastest suspends; scaled blur into arpeggioed chord sliding; very low frequency radio atmospherics provide internal rhythm speed at 1/1 wherever that happens; breath and finger/hand/arm speed limit within the natural order of the body; broken listening breaks dual harmony communality; parallel processing; quonset hut immediacy; some content other than music/sound/entertainment/meditation/; close to passing out; one take to the extent that another with the same structure/instrument/ scale is impossible/inconceivable; taking sound/scale/music somewhere uncomfortable; taking it somewhere different/new/elsewhere/thoughtless; aligned with physics not spirit; aligned with material/abstract culture; speed past listening/discrimination/isolation; not relying on tonality/ tone color/texture; soft with amplification; not relying on electronics/ sweetening/echo blocking/reverb blocking/volume/distortion; not this/not that; neural interconnectivity density matrices; acoustic instrumentation/ tending/materiality/antiquity; electronics as acoustics; acoustics as electronics; vocalization/song as body indices; breath/rattling/string sounds/comments/coughing/wheezing as body focus/presence/music-sound- thought; determinant breath and muscle stretch; eyes shut/wide open; listen/not listen; hear/not hear; see/not see; instrument fingerboard/ keyboard/woodwind keys/harmonica holes/xyz abc/soundboard as potential field/ignored or cultivated attractors/intensifications and lassitudes/ hills and valleys/storehouses/patternings and gnarly-forms/nonforms/ structures and unstructurings-deconstructings; forms against forms/play against play/history against history; what any organism might do; shame and defuge in music/sound; second-person phenomenology of sound; death- rattling; abject and depleted sound; dis/comfort and dis/eased sound; i will sing my way out of death; i will sing my way into death; natural and unnatural gestures; rasa theory of masquerade; performing rasa; undoing of an audience; tending of nails/embrochure/lungs; riff memory under erasure; coaxing; http://www.alansondheim.org/earlydawnsl.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/earlydawnsl.mp3