Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1302091310030.7796@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: clocking, neuros, stretch palimpsest
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 13:12:49 -0500 (EST)
clocking, neuros, stretch palimpsest http://lounge.espdisk.com/archives/1043 (best) http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/lowclocks.mp3 -- analog clocks (medium fidelity) -- pocket watch and 1881 alarm clock. http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/neuros.mp3 -- solo oud -- neuros is based on a simple tune which curls in on itself, neurotically breaks out, returns, swallows itself, and so forth; timing is interrupted as a result. a good example of 'conceptualized' music where a system is set up, broken, turned abject, the improvisation moves through and across the resulting striations. think of obsessive tracking or psychoanalytic palimpsest. http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/stretch.mp3 -- solo oud -- carries these operations into stretched pitches and time frames, as if a tune were always in the process of (melodic) formation, immersion and definability at cross-current entanglement. I'm at my _wit's end._ None of this _matters._ I have _no resources left._ I have no _aesthetics._ I am a big grown _boy._ I am _tired of perseverance._ I _listen._ more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible