Combination, chora, cooling - philosophico-music experimentation
http://lounge.espdisk.com/archives/1011 (best) http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/allsolace.mp3 4. The mysolace experimentation pieces are combined into a single production. Background is tamburi and electronic tambura; foreground are the inchoate workings of alignment. Since the originals were different lengths, the separate pieces drop out one after another, until one alone emerges and continues. So there are two backgrounds - the various drones metaphorically providing an image of string theory, of microwave background radiation (MBR), of groundwork - and the backgrounds of string and woodwind instruments in a constant state of virtual presence tending towards emergence. The thickness is lost. The remaining piece embodies drone, foreground (ghijak), and brain-waves at two frequencies. The universe is simultaneously tuning-up and emitting. What is chaotic is inchoate; what is inchoate is not necessarily chaotic. In this work the chaotic itself dissolves as a result of the mp3 (or any other - I have a .wav that sounds clearer but is much larger) digitization and compression; randomness underlies everything including the real-world plucking of a string with all the implied resonances at war with the physics of materials from string to surface to traveling waves to damping phenomena to the instrument's and performer's bodies to the weather itself. And the universe? Simultaneously tuning-down and emitting, entropic, always thinking in remote corners, always at a loss. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
