vyrgyn http://www.alansondheim.org/vyrgyn.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/vyrgyn1.png http://www.alansondheim.org/vyrgyn2.png http://www.alansondheim.org/vyrgyn3.png http://www.alansondheim.org/vyrgyn4.png http://www.alansondheim.org/vyrgyn5.png http://www.alansondheim.org/vyrgyn6.png http://www.alansondheim.org/vyrgyn7.png http://www.alansondheim.org/vyrgyn8.png vyrgyn under duress mourned under duress dreamed under duress murmured under duress vyrgyn and philosophy of vyrgyn of vyrgyn the love of wisdom of the love of wisdom, of vyrgyn "of the love of wisdom, of vyrgyn" - that is the Comma of Vyrgyn
the gods have spoken http://www.alansondheim.org/balalu.mp3 the rest is up to us. but the gods have spoken. i don't understand what they're saying. just as soon as they begin to get somewhere near the universal frequency, they leave the scene - we alone once again, mumbling sounds and hoping for the existence of gluons like fireflies on stretched strings. just as soon as humming and buzzing confusion straightens out, somewhere, something, someone, comes along and tries to pin it down and this is called culture that operates locally. my culture which is left up to us operates globally. the gods told me they're a real mess thanks to us.
Sondheim's "Music" He always plays out of tune. He plays too fast and doesn't modulate enough. He's got like ADD and can't focus on an instrument. He can't hear intervals at all. He thinks every instrument is the same. He thinks every instrument is some kind of drum. He thinks he's a genius with whatever he does. He doesn't know how to listen, not even to himself. He plays the same thing over and over. He's always showing off. He's a total fake and doesn't know it. He's fraud and really doesn't care. His music has no depth at all. His music is just a lot of runs. He repeats the same chords over and over again. He's melodic ideas are moronic. When he can't escape he throws tricks in. He seems to be in love with the minor scale. His minor scale is always the same minor scale. He shouldn't be surprised his audience is tiny. He shouldn't be surprised no one buys his stuff. He's too embarrassed to look at the audience. He's always too nervous to play well. He's always dissonant but he can't hear it. He can't tell one scale from another. He thinks he can master just about anything. His intonation is atrocious. He can't play at all in tune without frets. He should put his flute away or sell it. His repairs are a joke. He'd be lucky if his instrument's in tune. He has no sense of dynamics except loud. He accompanies other musicians like he's deaf. Someone should take his instruments away. He huffs and puffs like he's actually working. He can't really play with any sense of rhythm. He's either working free or mumbling four-four time. He's one of the few who has no idea what he's doing. He plays the most forgettable stuff I ever heard. He seems to be in love with his own noise. He can't play anything extended at all. He's ridiculous for thinking he's important. He's always thinking he's breaking new ground. He knows nothing about music. He doesn't listen to anything except himself. He's the most arrogant musician I ever heard. He won't let anyone else touch his instruments. When he can't play something he just gets rid of it. He spams Facebook and email lists with his garbage. He thinks playing fast makes his music better. He can't read music and doesn't think it matters. He doesn't know when a peg slips and he's playing. He gets this pseudo-deep expression when he plays. He's always trying to play with his eyes closed. Other musicians run from him. He's the most desperate musician I know. He gives music a bad name. He gives musicians a bad name. He's a control freak and tries to run everything. He's lucky if he has an audience of ten. No one wants to listen to him. The sooner his stuff is forgotten the better.
Three Improvisations http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/greatoud1.mp3 oud for me and you http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/greatoud2.mp3 oud for Myk Friedman http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/greatcobza.mp3 cobza for everyone there are p.m., post meridean, early afternoon improvisations greatoud1 transforms 1/3 of the way through greatcobza is as difficult as cobzas are wont to be greatoud2 meanders glissandi until you're immersed in meandering glissandi the oud's the Shehata oud and the cobza's the rare 10-stringed one enjoy. please. enjoy.
(please listen to the whole thing, for Jackson who discusses labor with me, and Tyler, who discusses everything) extended meditation with extended denouement http://www.alansondheim.org/labor.mp3 sarangi please listen with earphone with as much fidelity as possible, you will be rewarded. the sarangi used was the antique one, which i now am fairly certain is a modified sindhi sarangi with the two metal melodic/drone strings replaced by a traditional sarangi gut string. reverb was added with adobe audition; the sarangi creates its own cosmos or resonant space. labor of course is fundamental to this music, which is exhausting to play. as musicians we are never paid enough, not for our sound, not for our gift of meditation to you, and not for our architecture. here is then the promised gift; the musician fades away and may not have sufficient means to survive for any reasonable length of time, however defined. the sarangi, too, needs tending; the pressure on the bridge and pull of the strings is tremendous. enjoy.
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(I'm on the board here, wanted to send this out)
Subject: Publication Announcement: EA Vol. 1 No. 2, "The Missed"
We're pleased to announce the publication of our second issue, entitled "The
Missed." �A diverse collection of philosophical and aesthetic reflections on
failure and missed opportunity, this issue is now�available here for free
download. �We'd like to extend special thanks to all of you who contributed
valuable reviews and opinions, which were integral to the production of this
- very strong, we believe, and certainly unusual - publication.
The contents are as follows:
* Editors' Introduction -�Mandy-Suzanne Wong & Joanna Demers
* Zineb Sedira?s "Saphir" and H?l?ne Cixous? "landscape of the�trans-, of the
passage" -�Anna�R?dstr?m
* Silence Being Thought: Badiou, Heidegger, Celan -�Tom Betteridge
* Fakebook -�Rich Andrew
* Becoming Spirit: Morality in Hegel?s�Phenomenology�and Bergman?s�Through a
Glass Darkly - Magdalena�Wisniowska
* Grimonprez's Chimera -�Isabel Sobral Campos
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- Alan, for the editor
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FAST FAST FIDDLE for all you fiddlers out there for Charlie beaten the devil I beat you for great Jerry E. and the firecracker boys and girls for the Swedish monk on Wednesdays in Morgantown WV for Stephen Dydo and his snap-to-em hands I got you all beat I got you run around circles in you I got your circles coming back to your circles I don't leave the straight path the crooked path for all you fiddlers out there I'm the new guy in town Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania Rules!!! http://www.alansondheim.org/fiddler.mp3...
k33% more yy TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2012 Alan Sondheim 11:49 AM - Limited when things turn out death gets hir chance to sing death is a woman following me death is a tall man in a black fedora death follows me and sings hir mournful tune death owes me nothing and gives me nothing i scream at death you owe me a piece of wood you owe me a nineteenth-century piece of wood to make a flageolet death pays no attention and hides the piece of wood the wood is a cylinder designed for breathing and singing the wood cries out, i am useless, death has me in hir group i beg you i say to death release my piece of wood anything you say to death, death has heard a million times over in every language and cry, death has not listened i will record my language and cry to death and here it is here it is death, you can take it or leave it viola and sarangi, Azure Carter, voice/song http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/hallows0.mp3 http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/hallows1.mp3 http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/hallows2.mp3 Hallows0 Unknown Artist - Unknown Album Hallows0 espdisk.com Like Unfollow Post Share Maria Damon likes this. Alan Sondheim http://lounge.espdisk.com/archives/816 should work better as a link if you paste it in. ESP-Disk always seems broken for Chrome Sondheim Archives: when things turn out death gets hir chance to sing lounge.espdisk.com Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this aud... See More Collapse this post POSTED BY SONDHEIM AT 8:50 AM 0 COMMENTS k34%