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.