Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1209200016210.20288@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Streak
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:18:20 -0400 (EDT)
Streak http://lounge.espdisk.com/archives/921 (easier) http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/pipastreak.mp3 Changing the high string on the pipa for a modern nylon- wrapped steel one (replacing the nylon one; I was trying to imitate the Tang) - changed everything with the ins- trument; it became much more responsive, and notes can be bent at least a minor third or so. So my play becomes a streak, constantly changing, covering about three and a half octaves, and all sorts of techniques - streaking breathlessly and holding everything in the world at bay. These include: depression, misery, slaughter, death, sex, food, drink, friends, leaks, storms, fires, suffering, pain, sleep, ecstasy, anguish, sadness, happiness, cats, dogs, virtual worlds, phone-calls, email, messaging, door-bells, collapsing buildings, arenas, bulldozers, street-scrapers, jokers, tricksters, pills, salves, alcohol, self-mutilations, military enlistments, prayer, offerings, sacrifices, masturbations, runnings, jumpings, singings, whisperings, yellings, cryings, fallings, standings, recitings, poetry, cinema, theater, poisons, guilt, pride, honor, decency, indecency, noise, quiet, music, sculpture, video, sitcoms, talk shows, reality shows, hummings, strummings, thumpings, beatings, caressings, rollings-around, jump-ropings, dodgeball, basketball, swimming, diving, hoping, despairing, millings-about, walkings here, walkings there, doorbell ringing, incantations, sublimations, subalternations, reconciliations, differentiations, integrations, field theorizing, quantum fielding, cosmologies, mythologies, snifflings, sneezing, carpet-vacuumings, eatings, seatings, defecatings, effacings, defacings, fevers, elliptical pereginations, sweatings, begettings, funerals, mournings, evenings, noonings, mornings, and sundries, mondays, tuesdays, wotan, thor, freida and mars, moons, saturns, jupiters, entoplanets, asteroids, exoplanets, dark matters, light matters, and any other matters such as these - light energy, dark energy, and any other matters.