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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Musico-philosophical detour
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 02:21:58 -0500 (EST)
Musico-philosophical detour http://lounge.espdisk.com/archives/1010 (best) 3. searching for basis on instruments slightly detuned. I am an aural-audible wanderer; the sung lisu, smoothly born with a long shamisen-like fretless and unmarked neck, needs constant adjustment in relation to the low string. Playing up-tempo can only help create the illusion of coherency. The speed of the world results in simultaneous fragmentation and suturing: make the breathless mind, and the virtual becomes whole. The sarangi is in-cohering with the tamburi, but there are way-points that function momentarily, and the result is a wandering dirge in search of a non-existent fundamental ground. What occurs, just as with the sung lisu, is something oddly reminiscent of daily life, instead of closure by chord or speed at the end of more traditional compositions. Think of the world and the nomadic, and how often notes aren't hit on target, but are approached as if structure were self-sustaining, although structure is broken, peculiar, signifying the death of classical mathesis, opening the maw of abjection, incoherency, tincture and odor of collapse. http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/mysolace92.mp3 -- alan sondheim sung lisu -- http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/mysolace93.mp3 -- azure carter tamburi -- -- alan sondheim sarangi -- http://lounge.espdisk.com/archives/1010 (best)