Macheen http://www.alansondheim.org/macheen1.mp3 Afghan sarinda and street noise http://www.alansondheim.org/macheen2.mp3 Nepalese sarangi and street noise The street noise is increasing as the arena nears completion - now Flatbush Avenue has been scraped clean, dug up, metal- plated, in the middle of the night, streets closed off, opened again, cars stuttering by, machinery roaring, and I'm trying to focus on these - at least for me - beautiful and difficult instruments. The sarinda needs leisure, I think, at least a meditative space, to play well; my nerves are on edge and I think, how can I use this to my advantage. The sounds, like always from the sarinda, are from another space, sounds I haven't heard before, that seem to come from elsewhere, cutting through the machinery and corruption going on in this part of New York to everyone's delight. The Rolling Stones will be playing! Dylan! The Nets! I'll be here, in some sort of strange counter-activity, counter- production, sarinda barely audible in the chaos. I fully expect the building to burn down, without the descent of angels. We want to move. I'm not going to kill myself (in case you're still thinking that); I'm just descending deeper into an internal chaos that has no occasion for recuperation - there's no healing when there's no space for it. But the sarinda clears away the noise, accommodates itself to those other voice I'm hearing, the wailings of the dead, or of those yet to be born, only to face the ongoing slaughter of everything on the planet - humans, 25,000 elephants, accord- ing to the latest issue of National Geographic ... _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
