Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.20.1612271119380.5437@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: webartery@yahoogroups.com
Subject: rasa, taksim, among , Happy Holidays!
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 11:22:54 -0500 (EST)
rasa, taksim, among http://www.alansondheim.org/dynsession19.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/rasa.mp3 - long-necked saz improvisation, dhrupad influence (i played this, quiet satisfaction, i love this!) finding a way through the depressive social-political murk of the past several months, building on three notes, moving across octaves, slowly speeding up, defeating speed, this music is 'where i am,' no cure but continuance, my mind still works, my arms still work, my wrists still work, my hands, my fingers, my mind still works and with this difficult instrument (8-strings, recalibrated by Amir Vahab), you can hear the rain, i am still alive; you can't take that away! for Amir Vahab, Azure Carter, ourselves and if i can play this, play like this, why cannot i govern a country, peacefully and fairly? and which is harder?