pipa moon http://www.alansondheim.org/pipamoon.jpg https://youtu.be/Xfi1Vo6sMQ8 VIDEO i have an old sony camera from roughly 2002 that does infra-red. we recorded me (attempting to or) playing the pipa in the dark. i could see only the very dim outlines of the instrument. now i know if i were playing a guitar in similar conditions i'd have no trouble. but this is a pipa with four strings, delicate bamboo bridges above the fifth, and a scale of three octaves. and i'm not a pipa player in any normal sense of the term. so this is what emerged. azure held the camera. the image size was only 320x320. so why do this? i've recorded with the pipa, held vertically, in the light, improvising. but not like this, in an almost pitch-black room, horizontal, trying to keep it balanced and move my hands freely at the same time. but this is another way to think about music, the potential ungainliness of any instrument, trying to bring intuition and memory into play as well. perhaps at this juncture, there's a metaphor at work here as we move forward, as time moves us forward, and we continue to sound a dream of liberation for everyone on earth. and then perhaps not. (by the way my head follows the position of my hands, which helped me with the sense of the music. i couldn't see the fingerboard beyond a smudge in the darkness.) _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
