2012-08-09 - The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

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Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1208090006230.5693@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Mashups from Facebook Discussion on Real and Virtual Ontologies
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 00:07:53 -0400 (EDT)

Mashups from Facebook Discussion on Real and Virtual Ontologies

http://www.alansondheim.org/mashup.txt
http://www.alansondheim.org/mashupcon.txt

Names have been removed, enjoy! And thanks to everyone - I hope
this doesn't bring the discussion to an end. -

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Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1208092341010.6806@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Cavern Song
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 23:43:25 -0400 (EDT)

Cavern Song

http://www.alansondheim.org/guanzi1.mp3
http://www.alansondheim.org/guanzi2.mp3

The guanzi is a Chinese double-read instrument, ancestor
of the Japanese hichikiri. Mine is in F; I put a hichikiri
read on it and made these two pieces, mixing jazz phrasing
with taksim phenomenology. In post-production I added
studio reverb; this helps connect the phrases, which are
far too dependent on my lungs. So the result is a kind of
cavern song; I think of this as the origins of the epic
before words transformed ikon into index and gesture into
symbol. Maybe the uncanniness of reverberation is a memory
of language's origin.