In Memoriam, Unknown, Piano Solo http://www.alansondheim.org/forpiano.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/PianoFZHV.mp3 (Piano3) http://www.alansondheim.org/Unknown.jpg Years ago I had a directory with a large number of files in a directory on the ESP-Disk server. At one point the directory was eliminated; I wasn't told and wasn't able to download the files. I found some of them on an Apple IPod that I still own. It was of course possible to download them, but the names were changed and the compression was terrible. One of them was called FZHV.mp2 and it's fairly interesting piano. I'm not sure what instrument I was using; it's even difficult to tell whether it was acoustic or electric. When I played it back through Quick- Time the title changed on the interface to "Piano3". So be it. Because of the odd resolution and loss and retrieval, I thought the two images were reasonable accompaniments; one is a dead Swallowtail butterfly that was lying, without visible injury, next to our building; the other was a shell-like object in the inlet of the Providence River; it was below a sea-wall, the image blurred as a result of the choppy water. Puncta, neither debris nor demarcations, and I thought to myself, as any first- grader would: "Why Alan this is a marvelous and sad collection and sad, even the music sad thinking it is being orphaned by the loss of its online homeland, Oh what to Do! What to Do!" Well all online homes are ultimately outlets and wreckage, nothing lasts forever, but here's a piano retrieval, accompanied by the ineluctable dimmings, not only of memories, but of the things and lives themselves, and their ineluctable dimmings as well. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] In Memoriam, Unknown, Piano Solo
Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour Sat, 20 Aug 2022 19:33:17 -0700