Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1307180014110.13159@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Violin Tier Performance
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 00:15:56 -0400 (EDT)
Violin Tier Performance http://lounge.espdisk.com/archives/1172 (best) http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/tier.mp3 Based on the tro and erhu playing, each string of the violin is used as the basis for roughly similar improvisations related to a particular melody sequence. The strings are played alone in the order 3/2/1/4, around GcgC, something like that. I started this project as soon as I awoke; the first quarter is out of tune and awkward, the other three are increasingly better. On the tro and erhu, it's quite possible to improvise on a single string, and that formed the basis for the Tier. Eventually I shall perform live, moving from string to string, never returning, never moving across strings or visiting older neighborhoods. In the meantime this is a taste of what's possible and as usual and of course I quite like it. In that I'm probably alone.