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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Hacking the Flu
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 22:55:14 -0400 (EDT)
Hacking the Flu http://www.alansondheim.org/alta045.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sara1.mp3 sarangi http://www.alansondheim.org/sara2.mp3 jogia sarangi http://www.alansondheim.org/sararevdyn1.mp3 reverse dynamics, sarangi I have a severe case of the flu, 101.5F temperature, hacking cough, dizziness, pain, exhaustion, chills, headaches, other assorted pains. This began about eight hours after we returned from New York (we left Saturday night after playing and drove straight to Providence). I've always been fascinated by the effects of dis/ease on daily activity (playing music, doing philosophy), so I gave the sarangis a try. At first they sounded - literally - wounded, then I settled in, mainly by adjusting the bass playing string. I'm terrible, but I'm not attempting to be anywhere near Ram Narayan; I want to use these for music pertaining to voice, time reversal, dynamics. I'm fully aware that sarangi is probably the most difficult of string instruments, and of course bleariness/dizziness wouldn't seem to help, although I do have the opportunity to sail uncharted seas. (It also helps that I've been reading de Quincey's Opium Eater, the earlier edition, which resonates somehow, much like the 35 or so resonating strings on the sarangi, or 7 on the jogia sarangi.) Meanwhile these pieces are part of a long line of work I've done, producing under physical illness or undue stress; there's a piece in my Disorders of the Real written while seemed like a serious illness, and the writing wraps accordingly - with the sarangis, perhaps, acchordingly. Then there is Queneau's Exercises in Style (in Barbara Wright's brilliant translation), as well as, at the other end of the spectrum, Fania Fenelon's dark Playing for Time. Somewhere my sounds drop through illness into the midst of texts, producing what you have here. Meanwhile, for whomever might be interested, there is the third sara/ngi piece, a model of the first with inverse dynamics. Enjoy. I am still alive. And culling: symptom, flu symptoms codeine medicine relieve woozy, work. occur less, can't get away from it. The result is those severe flu symptoms I've been with a flu or cold or something and had MSG to boot in what was a Fluid flu Julu Julu juLu Fluid Fluid Fluid Fluid flu Julu juLu Does the flu take over the fantasy, as chills begin. They are typical flu. To itself. The flu which consumes itself. Disappearing into the gruddly flu fro tho noodlo on my skull! hoodla hoodle hoodli hoodlo hoodlu degrees: I'm writing this - _with a slight fever_ - flu coming on: Reduce facilities as well of many cold and flu vaccines. of air we have rockets host cou ghgh ost sick bad flu turned bacterial infection think it might be the flu in any case you worked through the difference information born, bomb, flu epidemic hit, computers, net, ning, radio in any case, i've got a flu or 'the' flu Give me bird flu and/or give me death. Lacan said it was some matter species ears painful flu like speechu baby bounceu speeds endlessly states remarkably flu function signals misplacement react suffering 1961 [8;1H 2: flu sTreTcHeD flu carries work, Julu-body undermines sexuality, dies. These played during a minor flu relapse incident (fri) symptom, flu symptoms codeine medicine relieve woozy, work. occur less, nuddly nudd! :: aw gruddly gruddly flu fro tho noodlo on my gruddly gruddly flu fro tho noodlo on my pursuance of Jennifer's can't get away from it. The result is those severe flu symptoms I've sick still with a bad flu turned to bacterial infection so the in any case, i've got a flu or 'the' flu CMB interference run flux; fl ux; haotic flu x; surge, chao s; bomb, the flu epidemic hadn't yet hit, no computers, Net, no information flux; fl ux; haotic flu x; surge, chao s; host cou ghgh ost sick bad flu turned bacterial infection