NEW OLD CZECH VIOLIN AND AZURE'S NEW SONG
new old Czech violin:
we don't have heat here at the moment, playing in the cold:
carpal tunnel raises its nervous fingers:
playing through cold and pain just as the spy comes in:
truly ugly or beautiful i can't tell anymore:
but cold yes, freezing in here, not really freezing:
using what, the viola bow on the violin:
vertical and tuned GDgd as always:
i can only imagine what musicians do without heat:
without lodging and the threat of slaughter:
privileged here but still cold and still in pain:
i'm a coward and trivial, i'd never die for this:
it talks back, it talks to me:
it says, truly ugly or not, you can't tell anymore:
you can't even look in a mirror:
wracked with privileged misery, just listen to the music:
play it, then listen, then play it then listen:
think you'll learn, you'll learn nothing, you never have:
new old Czech violin, as above:
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/czechcold1.mp3
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/czechcold2.mp3
Azure's new song taken quickly before it disappears:
short and peppy sure-fired cure i think!:
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/ladida.mp3
Hi - Please vote this election; it's one of the most important ones in our
lifetime (or at least mine). Some of my friends are sitting it out, and
it's disconcerting, given what's at stake, no matter side you're on.
- Alan, coming back from the polls - we walked past a breadline to get
there.
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yet
beyond these three letters lies the range of possibilities hanging, from
the slimmest thread, from the aegis of classical causality.
the patois of patios
an n-dimensional plane with its language of particles and particle
exchange. yet lives in a cloud of probabilities, near the expression
as-if.
as-if something happened instead of something else happening.
where yet appears: in spite of something else happening, in spite of the
possibility of something else happening.
but not exactly in spite - something with less fervor, or something
against which the scale of fervor is meaningless.
nearby is might as well, as if it might happen. distinctions - yet, it
might happen no matter what - yet, it might happen as a result of - .
as a result of - causal in appearance, the germ of cultural origination.
yet ...
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RgFg?docId=CNG.6ef6de7af5f33847d19e690e61087c73.811
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani: A life in the Balance (Amnesty International)
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE13/089/2010/en/589bd56b-49ac-402
8-8dc6-abd903ac9bac/mde130892010en.pdf
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Pipa, New York
both of these pieces interest me, moving in new directions
and after listening to Wu Man ( http://wumanpipa.org )
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/newyork1.mp3
notes: traffic as accompaniment, traffic as interference
pipa as interference, pipa as accompaniment
finally giving traffic, city-sounds a voice, almost a holler
sound transformations: reverberation, hiss reduction, normalization
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/almost.mp3
notes: almost a tune, struggling to find a tune
minor seconds separated by major seconds, minor thirds
i think of the tune as asymptotic, almost arriving
for some reason Simmel's stranger in the city comes to mind
sound transformations: reverberation, normalization
thanks to Stephen Dydo