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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: the analog synthesizer real
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 22:15:08 -0500 (EST)
the analog synthesizer real recorded at neil fried's studio, atlanta, with neil on vintage arp analog synthesizer http://www.alansondheim.org/nf07.jpg neil fried and a.s. http://www.alansondheim.org/arpaz.mp3 azure's borrowers song http://www.alansondheim.org/arpflutes.mp3 flute, shakuhachi http://www.alansondheim.org/arpuke.mp3 ukulele http://www.alansondheim.org/arpplus.mp3 flute, viola, arp solo http://www.alansondheim.org/nf16.jpg azure carter http://www.alansondheim.org/nf22.jpg neil fried and azure carter http://www.alansondheim.org/nf32.jpg out the window we used voltage-controlled filter modules for the most part from T.W. Rhys David's Dialogues of the Buddha, Kevaddha Sutta; Kevaddha asks: "Where, my friends, to the four great elements -- earth, water, fire, and wind -- cease, leaving no trace behind?" one asks of ceasing and ceaselessness, of the inexhaustible; one asks this of grit, of the obdurate grain of the real. analog filters air airs, breathe in quality of sound and silence -- rubble _murmurs_ rubble and ceaseless sound -- we repurpose, repropose, on the fly -- during the very imminence of the sound -- during its placement -- rubble _machines_ -- as if there were creation and wind -- as if there were earth (there was) -- as if there were fire (there was) -- as if there were water (yes, there was, and high winds and storms and fury) -- beckonings -- the analog's repeated attempt to assert itself as _production_ -- as _machine_ -- repetition, logical construct, catastrophe, re/production, annihilation -- "'The intellect of Arahatship, the invisible, the endless, accessible from every side -- 'There is it that earth, water, fire, and wind, And long and short, and fine and coarse, Pure and impure, no footing find. There is it that both name and form Die out, leaving no trace behind. When intellection ceases they all also cease.'" v: when intellection seizes, they all also seize. i: in this instance nothing. longer, indefinite. i: in this, every move equal to every other. to each, the move. to the move, ceasing. to cease, to listen. v: i will not listen. i tweet I. i. i will listen. i listen. +++ ... +++ Thanks to Neil Fried, Azure Carter for this amazing session.