The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

August 27, 2016


Closest Star Closer Star

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http://www.alansondheim.org/closestar.mp3
http://www.alansondheim.org/closerstar.mp3
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here i'm thinking of programmatic music, picture music, land-
scape music, but descriptive music without landscape, program,
picture - carapace music, music determining its own alpha
centaur proxima approximate - usual suspects of catastrophe
(theory, chaos, strange attractors, field-creating bosons -
anything that irrupts within symmetries and spectra.

recently i've had sightings, out of the corner of my right eyes,
ghosts and other phenomena; at first i took these for earthly,
but now think they're presentiments of something unbounded here

if they had any relationships to coordinates, they would be long
gone before they appeared

fancifully, i think of sonic objects, embedded strata

fancifully, they're always already there, always already
retrofitted

they become a constant, against which the sonic plays, splays,
dis-plays

in this music, they are there, music = sound called music

one does not call upon sound, one calls forth sound, tends
sound, tends the tendency of sound, sound is called, sound
calls, sound always calls, sound is always already calling

the closest star is always the closest star ever, listening to
the frazzling of the landscape

the landscape and its namby-pamby shenanigans, however move
forward, reverse, elsewhere, the problems and potentials of this
star-music

and its shenanigans

oh improvisation oh oh composition oh

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oh improviser oh ~ oh clarinet; oh
oh composer oh ~ oh ( oh improviser oh ~ oh clarinet oh ) oh

oh oh oh taking oh the oh material, oh shaping oh it oh oh
probably oh not oh jazz oh but oh closer oh at oh lesat oh
occasional oh oh horn oh section oh sounds, oh probably oh not
oh but oh closer oh ~ oh oh improvisation oh and oh composition
oh oh composition oh without oh scores oh = oh ikonic oh regime,
oh the oh score oh is oh the oh oh unique oh instantiation oh of
oh the oh music; oh think oh of oh it oh as oh analog oh and oh
oh irreproducible oh within oh the oh digital oh world. oh oh oh
so oh the oh result oh is oh reproducible, oh the oh result oh
is oh the oh score oh but? oh oh but oh it's oh not oh mapped;
oh to oh play oh the oh score, oh then, oh becomes oh oh
literally oh to oh play oh the oh recording oh of oh the oh
score, oh the oh piece, oh oh which oh has oh been oh altered oh
from oh the oh improvisation. oh if oh i oh were oh an oh oh
academic, oh i oh could oh go oh on oh forever oh on oh the oh
semiotics oh involved. oh

oh scaup oh jazz oh multitudes oh
oh scaup oh jazz oh multitudes oh

   oh oh oh oh oh ,,
oh oh oh oh oh it's so UNNATURAL!
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ho ho ho ho ho ho
oh oh it's so UNNATURAL!

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