Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.11.1512051136210.28969@panix5.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: my music is always a wilderness
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 11:39:33 -0500 (EST)
my music is always a wilderness http://www.alansondheim.org/willshall2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/qingrain.mp4 This came to me when I was trying desperately to avoid insomnia, obviously an impossibility. The aesthetic truth of it seems clear - I don't work with fixed structures, but structures that may or may not reveal themselves at every turn. Walking and hiking move across paths, trails, falls, strata, loams, deep ecologies, biomes and microbiomes; my music moves in similar fashion, and on a number of occasions I've played on the path or trail, or, better, listened when I can. Playing an instrument like the guqin (the full name of the qin emphasizing its depth), I move among clouds and phenomena, chasms and pools, I'm inhabited. This isn't the music of harmony, melody, rhythm, but one within a continuum, a dwelling among, not trance but a movement of clarity. Listen to a section of this, done between AR sessions, hopefully enjoy, stars burn stones, cliffs, caves, voices tains never tamed midst plants though thrived making blossom us net longer walls pond dong ting lake corner part wilderness finding young could zou'll god spirit, preserved, moan silt. paused lay cried dry, stupified, dried, wilderness dam known, sublimity lies in microscopic worlds wildernessst, spwilderness (v(vast, (city)st,cious) (v (vast,cious)(city) snow-time alpine gorgeous wonderful leaders evades predicates young and young paths, unpreserved, there & I cry lalala into the wilderness! I lie in the wilderness! I cry lalala! I cry lalala! wire lalalala start and stop, carte i feel always i'm in your aa, alw yes whisper soulful tuneless lalala it's raining out and tinnitus is i cry lalala into the wilderness! i lie in the wilderness! i cry lalala! i cry lalala into the wilderness! i lie in the wilderness! i cry lalala! lalala birthing lalala, the wall, the rim, disturbance I cry lalala into the wilderness! I lie in the wilderness lalala! I cry lalala! I cry lalala! I couldn't think again, my flesh lalalala wire lalalala start and stop, wilderness! I lay in the wilderness lalala! I cried lalala! I crid lalala! * my e her * mhsshe' wire lalalala start and stop, carte i wire lalalala start and stop, carte i feel always you're in my aa, alw yes lalala it's raining out and acting up. i will cry lalala into the wilderness! i will lie in the wilderness lalala! i will cry lalala! i will cry lalala into lalalala mary graph, lalalala start and stop, carte