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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 sorrow of music
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 20:17:55 -0400 (EDT)
the sorrow of music http://www.alansondheim.org/evenings54.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sorrow.mp3 the sorrow of music or the sadness of the murmuring of objects or the memory and living memories among us or the transitional object of the musical instrument the instrument is the passing/passage/paysage of notes, notations, language; the instrument is a physical object, played by others before me, and, through stewardship, played by others after me. thus there are always issues of tending, and issues of setting-up, bringing sound out of wood, bone, leather, bamboo, to the fullest, to the fullness of the sound, and the slowness and urgency of this setup - thus the transitional object, neither here nor there, neither object of or from the body, nor object disparate, separate, separated - what is passed on, after death or through tending towards the gift, is organic, is organism, is world, is worlding, both through appearance and the caressing of hands, fingers, mouths, arms, drawing out the inhabitant, habitus, of the instrument, drawing always closer to the breathing of death, to the passing-on of instrument and music, to our passing on - what leaves me, leaves me well, circulation towards a new home, inhabitant there, something forever barred from me, the tragedy of the gift, of the release, of the relinquishment, of what i shall never hear, of what for me shall remain unheard, stewardship fading away, tending become a memory, a prayer, supplication - always with an instrument, this phrase: so that others ------------------------------------ now, what is drawing forth, by night or by day, by twilight or the memory of twilight, what is, what would have been ------------------------------------ my breathing, the blood in my skin, thus - ------------------------------------ formulas passing through each other impediments in the midst of them gateway formulas (drugs) - anything goes walls and catastrophies, nothing goes, nothing comes enclave formulas and free market formulas 0 # 2 # 3 # 1 -> 2 for example 0 # 2 # 3 # 1 -> 1 for another ------------------------------------
