Agree, Johannes, but then on shortwave, already conspiracy people at work, claiming the election's fraudulent; from there the man I was listening to was going to be on Fox.
very scary times, constant anxiety now Best, Alan On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 5:43 PM Johannes Birringer via NetBehaviour < [email protected]> wrote: > > Alan, what beautiful music and image you share with us, thank you, and > hang in there, allow your body to breathe through your playing. > yes there is a thin thread or threshold, we all can see that; > but the mail-in ballots will be counted; and there's got to be > an end to the absurd shenanigans. > best > Johannes > > ________________________________________ > From: NetBehaviour <[email protected]> on > behalf of Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> > Sent: 05 November 2020 15:48 > To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > Subject: [NetBehaviour] Basis > > > > Basis > > http://www.alansondheim.org/basis.jpg > http://www.alansondheim.org/basis.mp3 > > Well today after the election and at this point my anxiety is > through the roof but in order to ground myself last night I was > just playing t e r z guitar and I've came across it just happened > I came across a small sequence that had been in my mind for at > least half a century. And I thought I'd better record this > immediately. I had played something similar on the base sauce. > Saws s a z. But I hadn't really been able to come to grips with > it. Originally I heard it on a 78 record that I found in > Providence Rhode Island and gave to Brown University. It was an > Ethiopian record. And the tune the song has stayed with me since > then. So finding it and it's very simple finding it under the terz > guitar was a side at least in a small part of the universe as a > basis for feeling that things might turn out all right. It's been > the worst couple of days I think we've had in a long long long > long long time. It seems that there was a choice being made > between fascism and democracy and fascism has on its side the idea > of raw power and judicial shenanigans. It seems on our side is > only mail-in ballots to consider. And then they case I can just > say it's taking a toll and a rather brutal toll on my body and on > the bodies of everyone I know at this point. We feel we're living > in the regime that could easily turned into a form of outright > fascism related to nazism and its use of propaganda and it's the I > don't know the word attraction of Refugees and People of Color and > Jews and Muslims and anyone who is not white Christian and male. > It's very hard to live like this day in and day out. We don't get > out because of covid. The illness is getting to us. So here is the > basis which was for a few moments and kind of calming calming > calming tune her melody but really more like a kind of root > structure for everything I do and it just occurred and I played it > with the recorder balanced on my knee. I didn't want to move and > forget anything about this tune. I hope it does something for you. > It did for me. Thank you for listening. > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- *=====================================================* *directory http://www.alansondheim.org <http://www.alansondheim.org> tel 718-813-3285**email sondheim ut panix.com <http://panix.com>, sondheim ut gmail.com <http://gmail.com>* *=====================================================*
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