(rough music) Gone improvisation on Albanian starki http://www.alansondheim.org/cifteli2.jpg cifteli http://www.alansondheim.org/gift.mp3 starki http://www.alansondheim.org/cifteli1.jpg starki Finally have the identification of the instruments correct; the starki is 3-string, although 5 seems to be more common. The cifteli image is of a very small instrment which I've used in group playing. The music is my own. The starki should be reset, with a lowered bridge. I love it the way it is however. The scale is non-standard which makes it a joy to play. These instruments are played with a plectrum; I'm using my finger-nails instead. I'm awkward with the plectrum, but fine with my fingers. Everywhere I search for consonances. I seem stuck at times with 4/4 rhythm and its relatives. I keep hearing tunes or snippets of tunes that then fall into place as I improvise. I can fail miserably; it's easy to make a mess of things. But it does improve the memory, of patterns, textures, and tones. All my instruments resonate with each other, and all of them speak as if they're within a neighborhood. Of course they are, commensurate with my abilities or lack of them. When I'm entering text, as now, I find myself making mistakes. When I'm entering an improvisation, I find those mistakes absorbed; as with programming errors, they become features. I confess: I listen often to what I have done, and love it. That keeps me going, going, going and gone. That keeps me gone. ___ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Gone improvisation on Albanian starki
Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour Fri, 08 Apr 2022 10:01:48 -0700
