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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Pipa, New York
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 23:25:09 -0400 (EDT)
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