Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1203310041450.4840@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: birds of modern media
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:43:18 -0400 (EDT)
birds of modern media http://www.alansondheim.org/birdsofmcm.mp3 when i was substituting in the modern culture and media department at brown, i'd listen to the birds outside the windows of the office where i slept; i made some recordings. now, thanks to chris diasparra, i have an open-holed flute and this is the result. and i just saw in fact the anna halprin documentary and there were birds everywhere in it. and i just remembered the vultures and hawks overhead here, and as foofwa and i were walking to or from an event, there were herons overhead. and i remember that all this beauty will disappear for me and that my playing can't do it justice, not even the breathing of it nor the nervousness of repetition and the miracles of losing scales just at the moment when, teetering, i am wheeling in the sky, the earth tilting below me, and, my feathers are ruffled, the nighthawk begins his descent with an other music, for mate and for love, for the uncanny pleasure of flying