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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: New Pieces: Baritone Horn with Delay! and desperate cluster
f**cked
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 17:11:27 -0400 (EDT)
New Pieces: Baritone Horn with Delay! and desperate cluster f**cked Baritone Horn with Delay! http://lounge.espdisk.com/archives/1124 (best) http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/band1.mp3 Not only a way to cover up errors (snuff them out like a candle wick!), but to create a kind of musical beauty I wouldn't otherwise have access to, I imagine streams and clarion calls, and tall mountain peaks, cataracts... desperate cluster f**cked! http://lounge.espdisk.com/archives/1122 (best) http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/ext.mp3 - solo long-necked saz - because at the core of it all i recognize i don't know what i'm doing, well then, the best way to proceed is to create clusters which serve as homes in the midst of the nomad; they can be accessed and surrounded and that's what happens here, so many half-tone approaches to and from those strange attractors of stability that leave one breathless and scared of the movement one to another, it's almost as if one can miss and slide forward or backward, frightening! so screwed with the scales, so many scales, short-termination memory holding the last sequences in abeyance. and then there's always the question of technique, hands need prior knowledge, fingers follow as if in (natural) kinds. a stretch may collapse or a fret rattle, and sometimes a leap to another field is the only way out. i work towards long forms, this way everything gets a chance to settle down, eventually some good might come out of it, perhaps saving a life or two ...