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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: clumped radiate music on the Toba hasapi
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 00:54:09 -0400 (EDT)
clumped radiate music on the Toba hasapi rough steady-beats with micro-events 'throwing things' off - it's like a particle counter determined by mistakes, boredom, rhythm changes: things appear against background radiation. (as if the metaphor holds). so that the sound/work is organized, not by melody/harmony/rhythm or improvisation, but by _body twitches,_ derailed muscle-memory, momentary fugue-states. it's as if the listener were _inside-me,_ listening to the body in a mode of production, likewise listening to the production itself, through the body. the hegelung playing is similar. the problem with fretted/chromatic instruments: the second or third are obdurate: march and waltz, mourn and yearn. they slide on the hasapi, paralleling hegelung and anything that comes to mind, but a problem with hearing the intervals: i'm constantly correcting, not all that well indeed, but quickly, 'one way or another.' but music organizing itself against a background of music organizing itself in any case. organizing through not unorganizing but a-organizing, it happens, it murmurs within, the result of what's usually taken to be supplement, diacritical noise, the curlicue. never the same but always within the clumped radiate. later i might say elsewise, some when, where, else, others. as if we're talking and something 'just came to mind.' or something 'just came to mind' between us, we're not sure who thought of what, who had the first idea, the idea first. or talking to oneself, the same; you're breathing, your breath seems to stop for a moment, what might have appeared to be an event. but always for a moment, then gone, then background maybe shaking a bit, then dampening, then settling back in, perhaps the same or something slightly different or something one might not remember, maybe not that different, maybe so. http://www.alansondheim.org/hasapioldnew1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/hasapioldnew2.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/hasapi.jpg