Guqin Universes and Updated Autobiography http://www.alansondheim.org/qinqq.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/qqq.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/qq.mp3 perhaps the most successful of the inverted dynamics pieces; qqq is the final result, qq is the original. i recorded this last night, couldn't sleep, six in the morning, took a lot of sleeping pills and trazodone, checked the tuning of the 1980s qin, played what might be my best piece in any case. so this is the body and qin, the 'scratchy' sound is actually audible in both version, part and parcel of the music and its making. i've been thinking (admittedly ignorantly) of the relationship between category theory and 'older' mathematical foundations, in relation to sound modifications like echo, filters, on one hand, and revrev/inverted dynamics on the other; the latter brings otherings into the foreground (temporality and body for example), while the former remains within the traditional embeddings of the subject (player, listener). ... http://www.alansondheim.org/biog.txt updated autobiography; i've been working on this at least since 1996; do have a read, if you have the time. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
