Getting Ready - http://www.alansondheim.org/gettingready.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/gettingready.mp3 - violin the music/sound of anticipation and hope, among a dying friend, stabilized companion cat, panic attacks and depressions, and yet, the hope of the salvation of sound, so this piece is one of tuning up, getting ready for a performance or a recording, but the anticipation, the hope, of course become the performance itself, just as hope gathers hope and anticipation of hope becomes, appears, at the very beginning of hope, hope itself, and then, more-so, becomes comfort, enlightenment, advance we live always in such advance of death, decay, slaughter, illness, but we also live in-spite-of, the circulation of culture and culture's prohibitions and transgression, such makes us somehow more human, more among communality, more glad in-spite-of and within a dying friend, a stabilized companion, an irretrievable loss, a depression which is another form of friend to the detriment of all for M. E. and Ossie Oswalda _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour