Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1410180017220.29511@panix2.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Proving
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:19:35 -0400 (EDT)
Proving http://www.alansondheim.org/proving.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/proving.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/proving2.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/Lombok.png The qin's difficult; sometimes I have to prove to myself, after hating what I've done, misshapen, out of tune, grotesque, but not in a way I want - that I can still play the instrument, that with the proper concentration, things will work out, more or less, and this small corner of the world will feel inhabited once again. Here there are two qin pieces, one (proving) using hands and arms in the usual position, but moving quickly through difficult improvisation, and the other (proving) with cross-arm movement, playing in reverse in other words. Ah, so here are two pieces working in my favor. The Lombok image is a topographic map of the homeland my gambus, perhaps more on that later.