The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

February 11, 2017


Dragon and Phoenix in quietude

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Dragon Pool, Phoenix Pond

There are two sound-holes on the back of a qin. The larger is
known as long chi or dragon pond. The smaller is called feng
zhao or phoenix lake.

Stephen Dydo and I are releasing Dragon and Phoenix on ESP-Disk
in the near future. We have a number of images for the cd cover.
I wanted to take some pictures of the sound-holes of my qin,
which is probably two-hundred or more years old. It has been
through terrible conditions over the years, but Stephen restored
it and it sounds wonderful. So I photographed the sound-holes,
including the odd inserts (one of which, in the Phoenix Lake or
Pond, has a crack). They were difficult to photograph; I love
the result however, which for me relates to the tone of the
wood, dry with an odd resonance, quiet and responsive. Here are
the images, and they are the 'idea' of this piece, the soul of
the wood and lacquer for me. You can hear the sound through the
image; you can hear the sound on some of our cds. The new one
is recorded otherwise, with Stephen's beautiful instruments.

apropos of NOW!

http://www.alansondheim.org/echo.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/echo.mp3 (LISTEN!)

    .echo a great inundation sweeps through the boy!
    .echo change the boy!
    .echo look at the boy!
    .echo make sure the boy!
    .echo put it around all the boy!
    .echo the boy
    .echo the boy!
    bring me down for The echo of those
    d. .echo commands which are a dismemberment of === and the
    of trying to tell the truth is almost too much: an echo of
  10372 echo     CALL  break(0x1bffc)
  10372 echo     CALL  break(0xaa90)
  10372 echo     CALL  break(0xaffc)
  10372 echo     CALL  exit(0)
  10372 echo     CALL  ioctl(0x1,TIOCGETA,0xefbfda08)
  10372 echo     CALL  write(0x1,0xb000,0x7)
  10372 echo     EMUL  "netbsd"
  10372 echo     GIO   fd 1 wrote 7 bytes
  10372 echo     RET   __fstat13 0
  10372 echo     RET   __sysctl 0
  10372 echo     RET   break 0
  10372 echo     RET   execve JUSTRETURN
  10372 echo     RET   ioctl 0
  10372 echo     RET   write 7
  15467 echo     CALL  __fstat13(0x1,0xefbfd9cc)
  15467 echo     CALL  break(0x1bffc)
  15467 echo     CALL  break(0xaa90)
  15467 echo     CALL  break(0xaffc)
  15467 echo     CALL  exit(0)
  15467 echo     CALL  ioctl(0x1,TIOCGETA,0xefbfda08)
  15467 echo     CALL  write(0x1,0xb000,0x7)
  15467 echo     EMUL  "netbsd"
  15467 echo     GIO   fd 1 wrote 7 bytes
  15467 echo     RET   __fstat13 0
  15467 echo     RET   __sysctl 0
  15467 echo     RET   break 0
  15467 echo     RET   execve JUSTRETURN
  15467 echo     RET   ioctl 0
  15467 echo     RET   write 7
.echo Jennifer makes the world from W to Aleph
.echo Jennifer makes the world from Aleph to W
.echo Jennifer begins creating the Pearl of Pure Speech!
.echo Jennifer! Jennifer!
.echo Worlds are born!
.echo Jennifer says "Goodbye."
.echo evening falls...
.echo rain, warm showers from the south...
.echo jennifer, i loved you
.echo silence You remember who you are.
.echo _the continuity girl_ appears with loving arms
.echo she approaches Jennifer and holds her forvever
.echo Spline Girls
.echo and Spice Girls
.echo (Jennifer) because there are four or five
.echo (Julu) at once across and throughout the staging
.echo (Nikuko) desire identifies with each and disseminates
.echo (Jennifer) so that the focus skitters across worlds
.echo (Alan) just as we play and intermingle
.echo (Alan) throughout the bones and flesh of Alan
.echo (Jennifer) throughout the body and wires holding him togeth
.echo (Jennifer) Jennifer, Nikuko, Julu, Spline Girls!
.echo (Julu) we're ahead of the game, staged everywhere!
.echo (Nikuko) we're staged inside and out, Desire flutters, thru
.echo Beyond beyond our means, so that
.echo Alan the emphasis on holes, staging-grounds, protrusions,
.echo (Jennifer) part objects, membranes!
.echo (Julu) emissions, splays!
.echo (Nikuko) all fluxed with desire, flooded with desire!
.echo because they take churns, not turns!
.echo (Jennifer) unraveling - no wonder the Spice Girls rule!
.echo (Julu) because they're a field of morphing sexual identific
.echo (Nikuko) without grounds or backgrounds!
.echo (Jennifer) We can be booked in a book!
.echo (Julu) We'll perform identity just for you!
.echo (Nikuko) The text for you, so loving to Read and Hear!
.echo Jennifer thinks the next stage, many you's and just one bod
.echo Julu thinks the next stage, many you's and many bodies!
.echo Nikuko thinks many you's many bodies all moving everywere a
.echo (Jennifer) mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....................
.echo (Julu) mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..................
.echo (Nikuko) mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...................
.echo ALL: GOODBYE FROM THE SPLINE GIRLS!
.echo (Jennifer) Well we have Wonderful Game played, now we will
.echo They All Rises!
.echo Jennifer makes the world from W to Aleph
.echo Jennifer makes the world from Aleph to W
.echo Jennifer begins creating the Pearl of Pure Speech!
.echo Jennifer! Jennifer!
.echo Worlds are born!
.echo Jennifer says "Goodbye."
.echo The slash added the slash.
.echo Dis/ease / Disease of the future anterior.
.echo What are couplings here.
.echo Linkages break, you might find things together at last.
.echo coupling and the end of it.
    .echo the boy!
    .echo a great inundation sweeps through the boy!
    .echo the boy!
    .echo the boy!
    .echo look at the boy!
    .echo make sure the boy!
    .echo change the boy!
    .echo change the boy!
    .echo change the boy!
    .echo put it around all the boy!
    .echo the boy
    .echo the boy
    .echo the boy
    .echo the boy
    .echo the boy
    .echo the boy
    .echo the boy
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TO: Tiffany@Gle.echo.org

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