Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.11.1503240201140.6525@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Erhu
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 02:05:47 -0400 (EDT)
Erhu http://www.alansondheim.org/erhuand.jpg * http://www.alansondheim.org/qqqqviolin.mp3 erhu Replaced the violin piece by an erhu piece, same address. 1. It's more adventuresome. 2. It sounds better. 3. It was difficult. 4. Around 30 seconds you can hear a motorcycle. 5. The ending has an interesting bow slippage. 6. It's an erhu!!! [...] We just set up a more reasonable configuration for the Motu and computer; the erhu sounds travel into the ultrasonic which made it hard for the lavalier to work well; instead I duplicated the instrument mic. In the meantime, playing is compounded by my tinnitus, which creates beats/ interference patterns; my ear-dreaming, phantom hearing, takes over and the result is strange; I have to play through and above/below what I hear, which is not entirely coming from the instrument. The next beat of my heart might be mirrored in the madal, but not here. In any case, I think the piece is quite good, worthy of hearing, rushed, running wild at the limit of my physical/musical capabilities. [...] * erhu in foreground, sarangi, ghichak, and suroz behind. The sarangi is now owned by Stephen Dydo; the ghichak and suroz will be going to the National Music Museum in South Dakota. [...]
