The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

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Time Reversal and Anticipation in Music

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http://www.alansondheim.org/before4.png
http://www.alansondheim.org/before1.mp3 qin
http://www.alansondheim.org/before2.mp3 qin
http://www.alansondheim.org/before3.mp3 dual qin
http://www.alansondheim.org/before3.png

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Using reverse reverberation, it's possible to create a
simulacrum of time reversal, the spatial environment itself
producing the sound, which always follows, always ensues.
In other words, spatiality, temporality, produce the sound
which is emblematic, responsive, to the exigencies of the
aural resonance, and likewise, the human body, the body of
the musician, is an emergent property of the whole. Space
is a dwelling in eternity, and speech has already been
spoken in a form of future anterior. Behind us, we find
ourselves in the future, and before us, the anticipation
of a creation yet to come. *

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Best listening with headphones. My Qing qin was used for
all three pieces, accompanied by a modern qin on the
last (which has remarkable subtle stereo). I personally
like the first and third best. Editing was in Audition.
The images are from a local OpenSim server on my laptop,
with the Imprudence viewer and modified prims from my
MacGrid regions.

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* See Derrida, No Apocalypse, Not Now, (full speed ahead,
seven missiles, seven missives), Diacritics 14/2, 1984

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*/record, reverse, reverberation, reverse, normalize/*