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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: The Ridings
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:58:52 -0400 (EDT)
The Ridings Hegelung tuned with lowered melody string, Azure Carter: The riding pieces. http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/riding1.mp3 http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/riding2.mp3 These are fairly complex; the hegelung's range is extended and the number of independent notes is pretty much doubled. The result is something that's closer to taksim than dulcimer accompaniment. Apparently there's precedent for this sort of tuning in Mindanao as well. These kinds of works seem to embody structures that might otherwise be approach philosophically - issues of phrasing, body, language, recursiv- ity, 'father-mother' structures, immersive phenomenology, relevance theory, communality - they're all present. I'm not always sure how to bring these back into descriptive/academic language, traditional philosophical discourse. Everything is presenced, and sound reveals an other not otherwise accounted-for.