Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1406082251120.12608@panix2.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Exceptional
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 22:53:25 -0400 (EDT)
Exceptional http://alansondheim.org/exceptional1.mp3 http://alansondheim.org/exceptional2.mp3 1=electric guitar.2=electric saz. In a recent review my playing was described as exceptional. Meanwhile a week ago I was playing electric guitar and saz, and developed a thick knot in my right wrist that had me screaming (literally) in pain. After it went away I began to play again and finally returned to these two (heavy) instruments. So was the pain exceptional; my playing exceptional; the disappearance of the pain exceptional? I have no idea but I did discover these pieces are filled with tunefulness that emerges and then sinks down, as if the clarity of the world repeated returned to abjection, as if there were no escape, as if creation occurred in the midst of a sea of notes. Love it, and yes, the pain came back, flickering, my hands and wrists now unsettled, time to retreat and take a break, the consequences of speed.