Future Speed Future 7 http://www.alansondheim.org/speed5a.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/erhuharbinger.mp3 Azure Carter Harbinger (song), Alan Sondheim erhu erhu with modified bridge i shape the contour, fingers strain to produce what i'm hearing internally, desperate to mind the gap, stretch from one string to the other, the bow between them, caught up in the instrument itself. there are so many possibilities here, ranging from the sonority of a violin to cat bird singing. i move among them; there's no way i could pretend to classical playing. instead i create circulations among things i've heard in my mind, where everything is perfectly in pitch, where it's almost as if i were capable of shattered and sutured worlds. there's nothing but bow and two strings. i change its tension my fingers separating horsehair from bow; at one point, i turn the screw fast, bringing the tension up in order to produce the surfaces of the imaginary i'm shape-riding, i'm circulating, i'm inhabiting. there is always the sound itself; am i letting everything down in this regard. i don't know, i've moved on to the next figure, next position, remembering the ruptured melodic arches that remark me on the way to certain dissolution. 11c11 < internally, desperate to mind the gap, stretch from one string ---
internally, desperate to mind the gap, stretch from one string
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