Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1406221131510.25142@panix2.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: absolute music and its structures
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 11:35:38 -0400 (EDT)
absolute music and its structures http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/mississi11.jpg http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/abs1.mp3 (qin) http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/abs1b.mp3 (qin) http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/noyzworld.mp3 (ambient) http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/noyzworldb.mp3 (ambient) i dreamed of this, literally. the qin sounds notes in succession; the background is raised through hard limiting after the notes die out. one string after enough... a second run-through uses hiss reduction to bring out the entangled qin and ambient structure. in the second two files, the ambient structure appears alone; a second run-through uses the same hiss reduction. the second and fourth are oddly beautiful, revealing details of a sonic world i had not imagined. the first and third present the expenditures and economy of that world. the qin was chosen because of its cosmological role, somewhat duplicated in the system of natural intervals reflecting one mode of thinking through the universe, parsing the affairs of organisms and atmosphere. the affairs of the world are the affairs of the qin, and the affairs of the qin are the affairs of the world. what is entangled is inextricable.
