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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, supplant (please give this a listen, read)
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 00:28:23 -0500 (EST)
pipa, supplant (please give this a listen.) http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/supplant.mp3 (please give this a read.) < finally a pipa solo with some degree of distorted mastery. < all the techniques are new for me, borrowed from hegelung, saz, oud, guitar, cura cumbus. < the speed of the thing disguises the structures, which are - more often than not - only a few seconds long. < i'll do something that seems like a long chorus, find out later that it might be at best a tenth of a minute. < it's true time dilates, but never reverses. < still things are held back, almost to a crawl, i'm usually breathless at the end. < it's over, as if it were, before it began. < listening to this, i have difficulty following it, placing me within the lines which fragment like a particle fan. < each particle tending towards another, splitting, vertices and chains, tunnelings. < and imminent breakdown of energy conservation. < this way i forget where i was and think only of the next few seconds, as if there were an event horizon in permanent recession. < it's thinking in absence, spatial stretches replacing the fictitious linear parsing of time. < or replacing time by its derivatives. < requiring listening, until everything is forgotten. < until everything in the future is forgotten. < and as if the future were a tunneling and forgetting.