Hi Alan, am listening to it a second time, thanks for sharing, unusual performance/concert in a Cave (what were the visuals?), and you played the viola like a cello? when you say you imagine bow-coupled-to-the viola, what would that be? is the playing of bow on strings not already coupling? the sound on my headphone seems to differ (right clean, left channel compounded by a room hum or would that be the vibration meter? - what does that do for you during the playing? and lastly (great photo, you would be so good as a musician with Noh and Kabuki, I already see you there, seated on the left side of the stage; now, what has all this to do with channeling Stockhausen? which day? Samstag aus Licht? Freitag?). warm regards Johannes
++ Viola, Stockhausen, Infinite Space http://www.alansondheim.org/caveviola44.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/violastarcave.mp3 The viola was coupled to the floor, fed through a standard instrument mic and vibration meter; the latter's track was amplified; my movements were coupled to the three-dimensional tunneling surrounding me in the Cave. Thanks to Kathleen Ottinger for stunning visuals, Azure Carter for videography, and the Brown University Cave. I channeled Stockhausen, I channeled cries and whispers, everything through the viola in this one take. The sound, the music, is something I haven't heard before; I've taken the right track, which was stunning and I dreamed of the bow coupled to the viola, replete with cries and whispers. We worked for hours, produced new video, audio, and stills; we used radio, Alpine zither, and viola; we recorded everything, even the secret transmissions of the equipment itself. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
