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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: MIGRAINE <<<<\\\|^|///>>>>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 17:41:55 -0400 (EDT)
MIGRAINE <<<<\\\|^|///>>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/Baluchistan.jpg Baluchistani suroz on Baluchistani rug, thank you Karen and Murat! http://www.alansondheim.org/migraine.mp3 Playing sarangi during a full-blown optical/faintness migraine attack. For me the piece is remarkable; towards the end I was able to match the visual flicker- rate with the sarangi, and the patterns were modified into a dark pulsating square which moved to the upper- left of the visual field. I felt fainter and fainter. The music becomes more rhythmic and persistent in time with the visual pulsations. The colors also shifted to ones I had never seen with migraine before. I'm fascinated by the results. http://www.alansondheim.org/madal1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/madal2.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/madal3.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/madal4.mp3 Earlier, experimenting with a madal Nepalese drum, working through patterns and textures. Slow at times and clumsy but thoughtful? (The drumming did not contribute to the migraine, which I still have, somewhat ferociously.
