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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: the simplest system of improvisation
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 01:58:40 -0400 (EDT)
the simplest system of improvisation http://www.alansondheim.org/amherst16.jpg Dickinson house http://www.alansondheim.org/simple1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/simple2.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/simple3.mp3 Henry Gunckel simple systen clarinet, mid-19th century with Luke Damrosch revrev and convolution programs. meanwhile the clarinet has a crack that needs to be filled, an afternoon project sometime after the chemistry arrives. it's been a difficult day but we went about our ordinary business. the clarinet has five unringed holes, everything for slurs, odd intervals, glissandos; technically it's a 13-key instrument before the HP/LP designations, high pitch / low pitch. this is not the standard or full Albert system, but as its description suggests, simpler, with the forked F (relative to the standard pitch) fingering that's a real nuisance. the tone is somewhere among bagpipe, duduk, folk clarinets in general, and very easy to modify. all of this will stop after the recording sessions in May. I know now this is a material for talking to myself about sound that I hear below the tinnitus and that it is a good sound and I will make it and retire into a virtual world with this sound and it will be there with me.
