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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Enharmonic Lures
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 12:10:17 -0500 (EST)
Enharmonic Lures http://www.alansondheim.org/gu2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/harmon0.mp3 qin http://www.alansondheim.org/harmon1.mp3 qin, qin http://www.alansondheim.org/harmon2.mp3 qin, qin (playing 2 qin simultaneously) "Since I must save the day of tomorrow, since I must have a form because I don't feel strong enough to stay disorganized, since I inevitably must slice off the infinite monstrous meat and cut it into pieces the size of my mouth and the size of the vision of my eyes, since I'll inevitably succumb to the need for form that comes from my terror of remaining undelimited - then may I at least have the courage to let this shape form by itself like a scab that hardens by itself, like the fiery nebula that cools into earth. And may I have the courage to resist the temptation to invent a form." (Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H., trans. Idra Novey, Penguin, 2012, p. 7) qin. impossible tunings whose fingers harmonized. to be harmonized. to the harmonized. harmonized. the program, be fit (in the sense of harmonization) or not; in a sense it does. these terms and my use of them are of course arbitrary; one might use encoding to reference the act of program-creation and coding that which operates on input, with all the phenomenology of input already indicated. I choose a distinction between these words in order to articulate a distinction within the field; otherwise we are off again into unnecessary obscurity. as for the element of a code, there is a sign or sign-function, there is a process drawn from tables or closed lexicons. as for the element of encoding, there is none; an input may, in relation to the encoding program, be fit (in the sense of harmonization) or not; in a sense it does not matter, as encoding is matterless, codeless, just as coding is mattered, albeit the ideality or cyberneticization of matter. inhalings, harmonics, harmonizings, and whistlings, for you, be fit (in the sense of harmonization) or not; in a sense it does work, these double guqin, somewhat deeply out of tune with each other, communicating and authorizing the presence of the Other.