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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: spectacle of labor
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 12:41:34 -0400 (EDT)
spectacle of labor http://www.alansondheim.org/icicle8.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/spectacle2.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/spectacle.wav we have been worrying about the world, and the .wav file needed the higher frequencies originally produced from a folk shakuhachi, the .mp3 file is the di giorgio classical guitar, i find myself furious with myself and therefore try to reach the limits of the instruments, the folk shakuhachi modified by hiss reduction and revrev, the guitar, a flamenco guitar, has surround sound added, i will calm myself playing in a large auditorium, spectacle because ascent and descent, assent and dissident, assonance, dissonance and descendents (one thing might be of interest here - the form of improvisation i work with - moving between D and E major and minors, bass drones or parallels, quick transformations between styles carrying the traces of tune, thick 'jazz' and power chords, flamenco minors, etc. i've wanted to write on this, but doubt anyone would be interested further. the music holds up, though, and the .wav file continues an exploration of thinned-out tonalities, cutting through histories of music.)
