The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

February 14, 2016


voice and inverted dynamics

http://www.alansondheim.org/azurevoice.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/azurevoice.mp3

inverted dynamics foregrounds background/body sounds, parasite
and interference, abject re/constitution of sonic production;
azure sings thru her sickness, pauses filled by screams 'out in'
the street below; her voice loses sonority, breaks down into
gravel/grating coughs and gaspings, she makes it thru the song,
the someone screaming has moved on, sounds of traffic, body; the
song is marriage to language, language broken by sickness; we
remember the catastrophic and fragile peak of goodness in the
midst of what might go wrong, returned and foregrounded here as
parasitic content. enjoy, despair, enjoy.

azure carter, marriage to language, unknown male screaming

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