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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Qin Coupling
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 14:29:22 -0400 (EDT)
Qin Coupling http://www.alansondheim.org/qinetc06.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/qinnow.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/qinetc04.jpg Zichen QI and couples with the Piece of furniture or table I did this situated up on And therefore what one has is the residence of the environment coupled directly to the instrument This is fascinating because you can hear In the way the playing of the world of which the instrument is only a part so that they Sonic phenomenology this Sonic position that one is in Is one that Is almost the cathedral Isn't relationship To the whole world I think that sense it leads to a kind of meditation About how we are how we are within it The Ken QIN Thick NQIN In fact his wife characterizes all of this I'm here late night after Steve and I'd also kindly Restrung the instrument You can hear that Ken coupled with the table The sound produced something Is that I would not have conceived of otherwise I kind of murmuring and residence particularly in the 2 lower string with the rest of the table and the world On top of all of this period on top of all of this One of the things I was able to do was to record the tuning process itself the lower string having lost its Foundation it's fixture in the tuning and And Steven repair that and the string still going out of tune So therefore you can hear the results of that in the middle of all of this It was oddly quiet when we recorded this The other day period the other day We heard In the early morning In mourning dove With a 5 note not a 4 note call This is dedicated to that morning job and I call .