Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0909190317520.28685@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: some things on the music borne (for esp-disk website, text)
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:19:38 -0400 (EDT)
(for esp-disk website) some things on the music borne i or so avoidance of noise ,then how to schedule fury or furious ,how to subtend silence i don't want this thinking: that this is exploring instrument, instrumentality ,nor a field ,subtended by fingers or mouth ,no more than body but the joist of particle physics ,muons on a sense of virtual particles on another (a b) (a, b) (a / b) (a : b) (a | b) (a f(a, b) b) it is all resonance ,surprising ,metallic overtones ,ringing: i remember just several sounds slowed into what seemed right even then foreign names touched by cultural illiteracy ,materials ,soundings, emptied virtuosities stringed, it is stringing ,perfect tautness ,resistance of parallel field ,tension of endpoint separation ,tension of separation i do not want to duplicate this ,i do not want to duplicate an other something informing ,hypnagogic as if you might dream this ,an other or dream an other this but not tiring ,tirade ,more of a space of a sounding or what might be 'some of a sound' of mewling ,howling ,whimpering ,murmuring ,seething ,then this amazing release neither to be where you have been nor will have gone there ,here is one alone ,playing music ,playing music together tending the wood ,nylon ,skin ,metal ,plastic ,catgut ,horsehair ,wax, bamboo ,bone ,or tending the wires the absence of metaphor ,wires ,no paralleling ,the difficulty of absence ,no equivalence ,no identity ,just as everything else is, or remains ,inert sound of the obdurate ,sound of the inert ii or so learning to play these ,evenings or nights' mornings ,but with all respect ,coaxing ,no world music ,no world but what ,are we brought, to here's an idea ,so i'll do it ,hear what happens ,when new ,then so it is brought always writing in silence ,always playing in silence ,playing silence, listening silence ,enormous roiling ,slow extinction of the planet, these last sounds ,instrument making ,them she got up from the music ,he got down to the music, he got up from the music ,she got down to the music you'll be telling me specifically what you want to know, i'll be telling you specifically what you want to know allowing myself the courtesy of being-deaf, allowing yourself my fingering you ,of being-sound & of mind & body listing ,yayli tanbur ,ukulele ,cobza ,hasapi ,cura cumbus ,hegelung, rababa ,electric saz ,valveless chromatic harmonica ,parlor guitar, classical guitar ,alpine prime zither ,alpine elegy zither ,like the emptying of names unknown on my fault ,something else of shameful ,refusing abjection in the moment when nail and steel ,flesh and wood ,collide unknown ,everywhere i look ,unknown iii or so i'm not giving you what you want ,that is ,an entry into this sound, some of an anecdote ,or at the very least, an explanation ,as in, 'you owe me an explanation' i wouldn't know how to begin ,perhaps in eternal sorrow ,mourning, every minute of the life or the slightest peaks of joy or stories about failure quantum-tunneled into music of unutterable beauty ,or musics or something about how these instruments came about ,what do i know of their arrival ,or this i know ,their attraction for me ,sounding of the world through them fretless ,they are teaching me how to listen ,place each finger in its rough exactitude or fretted in narrowed intervals ,what might be ,for others ,or those places of others ,a difference in this world or numbers of worlds ,worlds without number ,over and over again, desperately listening ,listening ,as if something might come about, occur ,just by the sheer force of it or the slow sweep of the bow as left hand fumbles for tone or tune, begins its slower repetition ,rasa ,the savoring iv or so it is more you want ,more you ever want ,this savagery ,this lack of mine ,of yours ,one more word ,phrase ,sound or tune ,book or text, of book and of sound ,of tune and of text ,that will do it ,completion, or suturing ,the fullness of the world ,fecundity, repleteness, lathering ,or foam of planck mass ,length ,time ,of vacuum and an energy ,of particle and fray this savagery a savagery ,silence a quiescence, calmness ,the piercing of things ,of some things ,on the music ,on the music borne