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some things on the music borne (for esp-disk website, 2010)
i or so
avoidance of noise ,then how to schedule fury
or furious ,how to subtend silence
i don't want this thinking: that this is exploring instrument,
instrumentality ,nor a field ,subtended by fingers or mouth ,no
more than body
but the joist of particle physics ,muons on a sense of virtual
particles on another
(a b) (a, b) (a / b) (a : b) (a | b) (a f(a, b) b)
it is all resonance ,surprising ,metallic overtones ,ringing: i
remember just several sounds slowed into what seemed right even
then
foreign names touched by cultural illiteracy ,materials ,soundings,
emptied virtuosities
stringed, it is stringing ,perfect tautness ,resistance of parallel
field ,tension of endpoint separation ,tension of separation
i do not want to duplicate this ,i do not want to duplicate an
other
something informing ,hypnagogic as if you might dream this ,an
other or dream an other this
but not tiring ,tirade ,more of a space of a sounding or what might
be 'some of a sound'
of mewling ,howling ,whimpering ,murmuring ,seething ,then this
amazing release
neither to be where you have been nor will have gone there ,here is
one alone ,playing music ,playing music together
tending the wood ,nylon ,skin ,metal ,plastic ,catgut ,horsehair
,wax, bamboo ,bone ,or tending the wires
the absence of metaphor ,wires ,no paralleling ,the difficulty of
absence ,no equivalence ,no identity ,just as everything else is,
or remains ,inert
sound of the obdurate ,sound of the inert
ii or so
learning to play these ,evenings or nights' mornings ,but with all
respect ,coaxing ,no world music ,no world but what ,are we
brought, to
here's an idea ,so i'll do it ,hear what happens ,when new ,then so
it is brought
always writing in silence ,always playing in silence ,playing
silence, listening silence ,enormous roiling ,slow extinction of
the planet, these last sounds ,instrument making ,them
she got up from the music ,he got down to the music,
he got up from the music ,she got down to the music
you'll be telling me specifically what you want to know,
i'll be telling you specifically what you want to know
allowing myself the courtesy of being-deaf,
allowing yourself my fingering you ,of being-sound & of mind & body
listing ,yayli tanbur ,ukulele ,cobza ,hasapi ,cura cumbus
,hegelung, rababa ,electric saz ,valveless chromatic harmonica
,parlor guitar, classical guitar ,alpine prime zither ,alpine elegy
zither ,like the emptying of names
unknown on my fault ,something else of shameful ,refusing abjection
in the moment when nail and steel ,flesh and wood ,collide
unknown ,everywhere i look ,unknown
iii or so
i'm not giving you what you want ,that is ,an entry into this
sound, some of an anecdote ,or at the very least, an explanation
,as in, 'you owe me an explanation'
i wouldn't know how to begin ,perhaps in eternal sorrow ,mourning,
every minute of the life
or the slightest peaks of joy
or stories about failure quantum-tunneled into music of unutterable
beauty ,or musics
or something about how these instruments came about ,what do i know
of their arrival ,or this i know ,their attraction for me ,sounding
of the world through them
fretless ,they are teaching me how to listen ,place each finger in its
rough exactitude
or fretted in narrowed intervals ,what might be ,for others ,or
those places of others ,a difference in this world
or numbers of worlds ,worlds without number ,over and over again,
desperately listening ,listening ,as if something might come about,
occur ,just by the sheer force of it
or the slow sweep of the bow as left hand fumbles for tone or tune,
begins its slower repetition ,rasa ,the savoring
iv or so
it is more you want ,more you ever want ,this savagery ,this lack
of mine ,of yours ,one more word ,phrase ,sound or tune ,book or
text, of book and of sound ,of tune and of text ,that will do it
,completion, or suturing ,the fullness of the world ,fecundity,
repleteness, lathering ,or foam of planck mass ,length ,time ,of
vacuum and an energy ,of particle and fray
this savagery a savagery ,silence a quiescence, calmness ,the
piercing
of things ,of some things ,on the music ,on the music borne
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