Monsieur Sondheim, 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...
...oh, and you remember everything crystal clear.... then I got the humorous reference wrong, I thought you were unsure who did what when there, a long time ago.. but thanks much for your response, I really like the playing of the keyboards..... warm regards Johannes Birringer On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 5:17 PM Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Johannes! > > Thanks for this. The club wasn't obscure - it was the Starck Club and we > chose the baseroom area, played in the closed room, people listening from > the hallway, whatever! We did well there. > It was David Smith who worked with Lee Murray; they were a team. He died a > few years ago, before Lee did; they were still working on projects > together. He had a group which is online now, around the same time, which > broke up soon after we arrived, Mr. and Mrs. Accident - they were married > in real life and broke up somewhat soon after we arrived, I think. Good > music with strange back beats / lyrics. I don't remember the keyboard at > all - the make - but it might have been a Mirage - I bought one again about > 15 years ago, but it broke soon after. The Mirage was unique and probably > still is; it used floppies. I don't think David had one but might have. > Other than that, I don't remember the brand. > He pretty much wired everything from scratch. Btw, wasn't messing w/ the > keyboard - playing it. > The tapes sound identical to the way they sounded then. I'm sure of that. > Things survive far longer than they're supposed to - the Acker tapes are > far earlier and made it through. > I'm against disintegration because things become permanently lost that > way. Everything I think depends on storage conditions. Storing various > tapes in metal containers keeps magnetic fields away from them. Tape > splices are always brittle, decay. > I did lose a lot of early computer tapes as well as some audio etc., all > of which were stored at my parent's house in Pennsylvania; when the > Susquehanna flooded in the 70s, they were destroyed along with so much else > - > As you know Murray's films, w/ David as well, are up on Lee Murray's > website that Barbara Simcoe created somewhat recently. They're utterly > brilliant. > > Best, Alan, and thank you so much - oh not the Midi pioneer! > > On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 6:47 AM Johannes Birringer via NetBehaviour < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> 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 < >> [email protected]> 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 >>> [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 > 347-383-8552**email sondheim ut panix.com <http://panix.com>, sondheim ut > gmail.com <http://gmail.com>* > *=====================================================* > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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