Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1007090534500.18628@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: melodies
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 05:36:31 -0400 (EDT)
melodies I spoke to a friend of mine who commented he preferred the plucked piece and then I thought of Steve Lacy and his comments about the soprano sax and then took control more or less - more - of the violin - to the extent that - you might want to throw out the other pieces - except for pizzicato - if it's that - hardly a light plucking sound - anyway except for the pizzicato accompanying the rainstorm - which turned into hail as you can plainly hear - like the cannons in the background of Wanda Landowska - anyway - let these replace the others - the work of a mature musician - I'd even say mature thinking - extraordinary thinker with fingers and bow - and then the last piece - it touches my heart - our hearts - pure bird song with noise reduction - red-wing blackbirds, meadowlarks, many others - noise reduction lending its own kind chirping, the marvelous and magical mixture of analog and digital - what beauty there! - and in all the other pieces as well - wonderful themes of parallel fourths and fifths with somewhat minor seconds - my favorites of course - violin plucked and bowed, http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/melody1.mp3 violin more or less bowed and then some http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/melody2.mp3 violin lucked, http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/melody3.mp3 bird song with noise reduction, http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/melody4.mp3