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Two Long-Form Solo Pipa Studies


http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/thirty.mp3 thirty point five minutes
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/five.mp3 five point five minutes

GINBY BY SUPARAGPRESSING THE INITIAL
PART OF THE WORD, CEEDPRO TO AN
PETRETITION OF REINGMAIN OUNDSSEM

AD D/ITION
SITIONBITION

- writing on two book-marks found in

A General Rhetoric by Group Mu - J. Dubois, F. Edeline, J.-M.Klinkenberg,
P. Minguet, F. Pire, H. Trinon Translated by Paul B. Burrell and Edgar M.
Slotkin, Johns Hopkins, 1981

NEW RHETORICAL TECHNIQUES are used in both solos, including playing
between frets and tuning-pegs, overhand fretting and barring, pulling
and snapping strings, running nails along the frets, and so forth.

The instrument opens the creation and shattering of worlds, technique
collapses and withdraws, another replaces it, memory returns sequences to
broken repetition, part-objects appear in place of the fecundity and
fullness of physical idealities, sounds are always already under erasure,
the _thing_ continues until physical exhaustion takes over, nothing's
fulfilled, the recording's one of any number of instances: if I say it's
closer, you would believe me, would you believe me -

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