Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.11.1509280014150.9211@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: making dew
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 00:15:43 -0400 (EDT)
making dew bricolage 4-string instrument found discarded on the lower east side delivered to Stephen Dydo by a friend, because it's Chinese and fretless, but so poorly made, hardly playable, so I did the following, dreaming of Johnstown and a new otherwise piece called For http://www.alansondheim.org/johnstown060.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/makingdo.mp3 the jump rhythm for for Stephen Dydo for Azure Carter for Stephen Holtje for Ellen Zweig for Michael Metz for Nancy Haynes for Jason Weiss for Susan Altabet for Mitchell Clark for Chris Diasparra for Bernard Stollman for Perry Yung for Monty Levenson .. . but this isn't the piece; the piece involves hundreds, thousands of Fors, and the whose name might I spell wrong, who might be forgotten, who should be definitely included, who left behind, who becomes resentful, who becomes grateful, who stops speaking to me, who begins, . .. . ..so perhaps not a good idea to do this piece, perhaps to do something else, full of infinite gratitude towards friends and yes, even enemies, and the forgotten .. . the jump rhythm bricolage ferocity takes over, something in the distance humming, Tibetan, the Qin Society, guqin, China, Chinese, Buddhism, Tsongkhapa, free jazz, ESP, backroom gardens, 1000 Character Essay, cd production, shakuhachi restoration, Chinese television characters, flute, viola, violin