Sarangis, epic, bathed http://www.alansondheim.org/sarangis.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/epic.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/bathed.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/epic.jpg epic, with the older sarangi, accompaniment to an epic poem that no longer exists, the music no longer exists, keeps falling back to the tonic, looking for a home, a ground, stability, commons, shared narratives and words; the music falls back, falls down. the music falls down searching for the tonic, falls on the tonic, rises again, a few moments, momentary search, falls back on the tonic. that is to say, falls back on the open high string, begins again, begs for words and narratives, begs for men and women and children, begs for a peaceful world, rises and falls again, upwards, then collapse, rising and falling. with the older sarangi, older strings but restrung, as if a voice singing thus, as if thus bathed, with the new sarangi, easier to play, higher voice, as if a voice singing thus, signing thus, bathing the singer and the song, bathing the sarangi and the player. as if the world were once again emergent from the chora, from a place of chaos towards a place of hope, through many skies and tunneling through those. and in two parts, bathed, the second faster, energy increasing towards the mourning of the epic in the other sound. so many clearings for these unknown instruments, their future always tentative as afghanistan, fragile as the museum i brazil. then the music, to surround you while there is still hope, while wholesome tends towards a momentary compleation, listen here, as if for a moment, as if all of these were real " . . . put into a wallet and out of . . . took my bones out of me . . . (the hide of an ox?) . . . " - Alcaeus, fragment 255, trans. Campbell _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
