Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.11.1503250105200.11178@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: What happens when I fill the room in my head
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 01:07:01 -0400 (EDT)
What happens when I fill the room in my head http://www.alansondheim.org/espsession12.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/qqqqalto.mp3 The image is from our recording session which resulted in Avatar Woman and Cutting Board. The music - well it's alto clarinet sent through the MOTU set for a 12 second reverb; that's what I heard through the headphones and I was curious how it would be to play that way. It took all night to set up, indicative of the difficulty I have with soundboard configurations. I was also reacting to my fear of tinnitus interfering with everything; here, I made sure it wasn't an issue but I'm walking around the erhu suspiciously. In any case, this piece is annoying, strange, and insistent, and I love the tonalities the clarinet was able to produce against itself in a space that never seemed to end.