Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.20.1705211101590.12205@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Sarangi, gathered for a better life
Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 11:05:34 -0400 (EDT)
Sarangi, gathered for a better life http://www.alansondheim.org/Darchog.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/Darchog0.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/Darchog1.mp3 the first piece begins and ends with slow and soft movements, the bow drawn for long periods of time in one, then the other direction, on open or deliberately buzzed strings; the central section is based on some tunes and resonances, gatherings, all using all the techniques i know; the whole is breathing and gathering, at best one or another protocol (what is this?); played and recorded at the best time; which is unusual, a home; coalesced habitus; i almost wrote puckering of space-time (what is this?); self-intersecting polyhedra; the latest issue of Science reports an 80% reduction of insects; glaciers beyond the tipping-point; Trump gathers massive weaponry 'deals' for every form of violence; concludes the vertebrates will disappear before the insects; and i think; music is such a fragile thing; almost always harmless and gathering, anthems and bugles notwithstanding; somatic; a body; sometimes made by humans; always by everything; let us create "The Heartbeat of John Cage"; sing among us; a bullet killed Webern; a rope kill others; a chemical; a firing squad; a war; anything; the absurdity of the shakuhachi-weapon; the fragility of a violin; a tro sor; a sarangi; the elegy; paean; dirge; joyful song; hymn; a gathering; a breathing; coalescence; home; an among;