Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.20.1607302355080.1694@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: difficult music / banjo / giraffe banjo(ette)*
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 23:57:36 -0400 (EDT)
difficult music / banjo / giraffe banjo(ette)* http://www.alansondheim.org/bctrip3196.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/skitrag2.mp3 * http://www.alansondheim.org/skitrag1.mp3 * similar modalities, somewhat different techniques but emotional!* the waters run orange, green, mine-wash, chemical effluvia, pollutions, contagions, outside, beyond the hills' rough spew* * really emotional! tragic and joyous "simultaneously" (at the same time). * worse than we've seen in West Virginia * Sterling 1888 banjo, open-back, nylgut strings * giraffe banjo or banjorette, 1870s? * practiced after return from the trip, condensed modalities, quick-change fingerings, short-attention span* entangled structures, techniques * facebook strictures and structures, generation from the bottom up _as if_ corporate strangulation* were not in evidence * as if there were a true liberty and hegemony of the user* * as if there were "as if" * name still uncertain