Hallo, Alan thanks for this music from old times. It's wonderful. I was not in attendance, but distinctly remember another concert night in Dallas, around 1986, where you were eating or playing audio tape that you had ripped from the reels and torn around the room like a mad obsessionist. I think the concert was in an obscure underground club in Deep Ellum.
I checked on your reference, "Guide de la Conversation Francais-Anglais, A L'Usage des Voyageurs et des Etudiants," as it intrigued me and one of my younger sports friends is preparing to travel to Paris next week; I found an excerpt in Bellenger's (& Poppleton?) edition of 2015: [p.208] « Monsieur, j'ai pris la liberté de vous envoyer chercher. Je crains d'avoir besoin de votre assistance. Comment vous trouvez-vous en ce moment ? Je ne sais. Je me trouve tout je ne sais comment. J'ai la tête tout étourdie, et j'ai de la peine à me tenir sur mes jambes. Je ne suis pas bien du tout. Je me sens bien malade. Je suis d'une faiblesse étonnante. » Please tell us about David Smith (or was it Dave Smith?, the midi pioneer?) what keyboard instruments were you messing with? I really love the sound. On another note, re: preservation. I am surprised the tapes survived and you can play them, or do they now also sound different, with mulch? A Canadian friend of mine passed in early 2023, and for his memorial we are trying to exhibit some of his early work, video and audio tapes from the 80s; his son wants to digitize the early works, but has been warned that he may only have one shot before old brittle tape disintegrates. (Not that I am against disintegration, don't get me wrong.) with warm regards Johannes Birringer Outrenoir* (Just found out about Pierre Soulages's work, now on view at Musée Soulages in Rodez. Fascinating) On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 7:45 AM Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour < netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > > > Music to Listen to > > https://youtu.be/A4eF9yfkgf8 video > > David Smith and Alan Sondheim, Dallas, 1985-1987 > > "Was the concert numerously attended last night? The house room > was so full that we were suffocated with heat. In that case I am > glad not to have been there. My dear it is a great pity for you. > That concert was highly interesting. I did not see the program; > but I had heard that very remarkable artists were to be there. > It was so; the most distinguished performers in this country and > several famous Texan and Pennsylvanians virtuosos were there. > The pieces of music were as well selected as could be. They > began with the Symphony and chorus. I don't like that style and > that music always great upon my ears. And yet he attained great > success that night. The first flute at the opera delighted us. > The organ concerto was executed brilliantly. In find the > orchestra was accompanied with rare precision ." (19th cent. > Guide de la Conversation Francais-Anglais, A L'Usage des > Voyageurs et des Etudiants, L. Smith, modified.) > > Dallas Texas, David Smith's Mac electronic music studio > > Unsure who did what here, a long time ago. He had the most > brilliant, streamlined, intense, sound manipulation / creation / > recording system I've ever seen. And he's passed on, like our > equally brilliant friend Lee Murray, filmmaker, who collaborated > with him. The studio was one room, a very large empty U-shaped > desk, a very large monitor and speakers, everything white or tan > or beige as I recall, very sparse, a couple of chairs, computer > keyboard, mouse, music keyboard. From what I remember. > Everything I think may be wrong. > > I found cassette tapes of the two of us, from a long time ago. > They were pristine. I played them back on my Sony TC-152SD > cassette machine which still functions well after 45 years. > Line out went into a Zoom H2. > > I detect the long moments of exhalation which would have come > from me. There's no way I can tell at this point, but what is > true, the music is wonderful, and this would have been recorded > while I was teaching at University of Texas, Dallas, sometime in > 1985-87. > > Glad that the tapes survived. The single image is of a slime > mold after a fairly violent storm. > > > +++ > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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