production preparation, Palmyra http://www.alansondheim.org/survive5.png http://www.alansondheim.org/eguitclar.mp3 -> -> electric guitar + Bb clarinet preparation of production production of preparation 1. I don't have names for the pieces at this point. 2. Pieces are 4' or under. 3. Pieces are the Shorter Discourses of the Buddha. 4. Production of production and preparation of preparation. 5. Instrument names are not names. 6. I don't have the order down at all. 7. My nails are strong and my fingers supple. 8. "Yet my nails are strong and my fingers supple." 9. The qin, at any moment, out of tune. 10. Viola bowing leaves a lot to be desired. 11. Alpine zither and electric guitar = rough on fingers. 12. Risky gamble of maverick clarinet. 13. Balance Azure singing with embedding and clarity. 14. Cords, chords, and braid = sonic sheaves. 15. Sound remaining, for a moment, after I die. 16. The unclarity of the sound remaining. 17. Today I practice jinashi shakuhachi, alto clarinet, clarinet, electric guitar, viola, anything to keep myself moving. These are the best for the fingers and lungs. Tomorrow the sazs, pipa, oud, Alpine zither, qin, others that building on the simpler architectures of the western lands. I read myself into a state of forgetting. How to name the pieces, order them, keep them to the assigned limits as if they were born to the length of a shorter older singing. How to ignore the screams outside the window here, now, as if what mattered only were internal resonances, murmurings of the worlds, skies elsewhere, and my thinking all through this, summed up in one word, Palmyra. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
