Cavern Song
http://www.alansondheim.org/guanzi1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/guanzi2.mp3 The guanzi is a Chinese double-read instrument, ancestor of the Japanese hichikiri. Mine is in F; I put a hichikiri read on it and made these two pieces, mixing jazz phrasing with taksim phenomenology. In post-production I added studio reverb; this helps connect the phrases, which are far too dependent on my lungs. So the result is a kind of cavern song; I think of this as the origins of the epic before words transformed ikon into index and gesture into symbol. Maybe the uncanniness of reverberation is a memory of language's origin. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
