[NetBehaviour] qin labor close-up

2018-01-26 Thread Alan Sondheim 


qin labor close-up

http://www.alansondheim.org/qinlabor.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/qinlabor.mp3

recording from the side of a beautiful qin,
the labor is clearly audible,
part of the aesthetic of the instrument;
now preparing for the concert tomorrow night,
the labor perpetuates itself into the murk
of memory, of memory of the future perfect,
& into that good night,
of which I will not go gentle.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Music, moons apart

2018-01-26 Thread Johannes Birringer 

Alan
you seem to be walking by the crackling fires or waves of something, river or 
burning pathway,
but your early lines in the text on music and instruments, and what i always 
considered your love for and curiosity
in instruments, made me think of you / of the other day.

I was in Houston and one quiet morning went to the Asia Society, a small marvel 
of a museum, and there they
had a fascinating exhibition on view, upstairs, i was nearly all alone and 
walked around " ART & ISLAM THROUGH TIME & PLACE".

I saw an instrument there that amazed me. 

A Sarinda, carved from a single piece of wood, with stretched animal hide, 
strung with gut, the instrument looked old and a little brittle
(created in India I believe), it is played with a bow, the wall text tells us.  
There is also an epigraph on the wall, nearby -

 'Should the moon meet us apart / May the Sun find us together'  

but it turned out to be by an Egyptian artist, not connected to the Sarinda.  
Have you played one, and if this one was several hundreds of years old, how 
would it sound?

The exhibit, if you are interested, features more than 100  works of art, and 
showcases the long history, vast geographic expanse, and amazing diversity of 
works of art in the Islamic world.
Two factors distinguish this exhibition: first, the inclusion of works from 
Southeast Asia and East and West Africa, areas largely overlooked in most 
exhibitions of Islamic art; and second, modern and contemporary works are 
featured side-by-side with historic objects. Works in the exhibition cover 
nearly all media, ranging from carpets to dress to jewelry, ceramics, glass, 
metal, paintings, prints, calligraphy and photographs. (museum website)
https://asiasociety.org/texas/exhibitions/wondrous-worlds-art-islam-through-time-place

with regards
Johannes Birringer


 Alan Sondheim [sondh...@panix.com] Sent: 23 January 2018 23:49

http://www.alansondheim.org/uv24.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/parlorrain.mp3
http://www.alansondheim.org/uv14.jpg

I create music because I find music a problem.
I play thinking about that problem, that set of problems.
For example, embodiment and sound.
For example, thought and sound.
Or the obdurate in music, or what constitutes attention.
Or the withdrawal of attention, and then, procedures.
Or not procedures but unconscious choice.
Which then returns to procedures and a kind of exhaustion.
Or the instrument itself, instruments themselves.
And what constitutes the tending of these instruments.
What constitutes their embodiment and sound.
And what of the thinking of these instruments.
Their obdurate.
The attentiveness necessary for the production of sound.
And what are the channels of sound through and around them.
What of their relation to us, their beings to us.
The semiotics of sound which is always already behind us.
The semiotics of silence which is always before us.
The sound which is yet to be produced.
The memory of sound which has been produced.
The memory of structure and of structures of structures.
The attentiveness to that memory.
The withdrawal of attentiveness from that memory.
And the unwieldiness of this situation.
Or these situations.
And the obdurate or dynamics of that unwieldiness.
So there is this set of problems and pleasure plays no part.
Or pleasure or unpleasure surrounds this set.
Surrounds this set as forgotten or as a diacritical mark.
The mark which tethers the music to the social or example.
Or to accomplishment for example.
Or the lack of accomplishment.
Or the aegis of failure or success.
So that I am not a musician or am a faux musician.
Or am a musician manque or a failed musician.
Or someone walking near a parapet in the fog.
The walkway along the bank of a nighttime river.
The sound of the water moving slowly.
The lights by which I insist this is not a program.
Nor programmatic music nor a lyric.
It is a walk by the Thames on a rainy night.
It is March 1824 and the moon is new.

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[NetBehaviour] empty mountain, empty sky, empty rain

2018-01-26 Thread Alan Sondheim 



empty mountain, empty sky, empty rain

http://www.alansondheim.org/scaup01.jpg mountain
http://www.alansondheim.org/scaup01.jpg mountain, sky
http://www.alansondheim.org/rainqin1.mp3 rain, qin
http://www.alansondheim.org/scaup03.jpg mountain, earth

qin 11:53AM up 42 days, 6:10, 46 users
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
qin 11:78AM up 42 days, 6:10, 46 users
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT

Debris || classical physics, Newton; +/- tending towards
Debris || digitalmemory. Oddly, I was sitting in the back seat,
Debris || reaching towards the front;
Debris || 2018

injections, ended up screaming; always felt I was deformed;
still remember

empty mountain, empty sky, empty rain If I die tomorrow Your
death-like SERIF!!! San Serif, Mhhwurx Pbvd. Mhhwurx Ateer.
Mhhwurx vtk. pentorm tot myseh. pulverized matter, small objects
I create music because I find music a problem. It is a walk by
the Thames on a rainy night. Thu Jan 25 21:53:01 STD 2018
Splatter || fluid dynamics, Irigaray; +/- tending towards analog
sondheim pts/41 pool-108-12-251-11.prvdri.  9:48PM 0 w sondheim
|| entire life; I feel the fragility of flesh, fragility of the
world memory of golden hair. I remember a kind of melting into
herappeared with different names in my early writing still
associate her with the Magdalene. And somewhere and who I think
went to an asylum was sent to an asylum. by one or another
parent. or someone. or an aura around the sun. or that golden
hair. or that aura.

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[NetBehaviour] paintings named after songs by the fall

2018-01-26 Thread Michael Szpakowski 
sad to post this in memoriam...


https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/albums/72157667148346265
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Mark E Smith, founder and lead singer with the Fall, dies aged 60

2018-01-26 Thread Michael Szpakowski 
spot on, Edward!

  From: Edward Picot via NetBehaviour 
 To: marc.garrett via NetBehaviour  
Cc: Edward Picot 
 Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2018 7:53 PM
 Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Mark E Smith, founder and lead singer with the 
Fall, dies aged 60
   
  I was genuinely sorry to hear this. He was a notoriously difficult bloke, and 
he had some unpleasantly non-PC views about things like the Falklands War and 
refugees. I suspect that if you sat in a pub with him for more than about 45 
minutes you'd probably start to feel profoundly uncomfortable. But you've got 
to take your hat off to anyone who can go his own way and do his own thing as 
resolutely and completely as Mark Smith, and for such a long period of time. He 
was a genuine poet and a  genuinely original artist. He never wrote about 
things anyone else would dream of writing about, and he never sounded remotely 
like anyone else. Nobody made music like The Fall: spiky, quirky and 
in-your-face. I saw them live in Norwich once, when they had their two-drummer 
lineup, and I remember them doing a crunchingly powerful version of 'Eat Y'self 
Fitter'. My favourite track of theirs is probably 'The Container Drivers'. 
 
 I love that line at the end of the Guardian obituary - 'His death was 
previously wrongly announced by the BBC in March last year, on his 60th 
birthday.'
 
 Edward
 
 On 25/01/18 10:45, marc.garrett via NetBehaviour wrote:
  
 Mark E Smith, founder and lead singer with the Fall, dies aged 60
  
  Sad to hear abotu the death of Mark E Smith. I will be playing The Fall all 
day today. Will be missed. One of my many working class heroes...
  
  "Smith formed the Fall in 1976 in Prestwich and was the only constant member 
of the band. He was known for his tempestuous relationship with his bandmates, 
and frequently fired them – there have been 66 different members over the 
years, with a third of them lasting less than a year. Smith famously once said: 
“If it’s me and yer granny on bongos, it’s The Fall.”
  
  "He was a famously prolific musician. Last year the Fall released their 32nd 
studio album, New Facts Emerge, and had been fitfully touring in recent months 
when Smith’s health would allow. The band played London’s 100 Club in July, 
while Smith performed from a wheelchair in Wakefield in October."
  
  
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/24/mark-e-smith-lead-singer-with-the-fall-dies-aged-60
  
  
  
Marc Garrett
  
  Co-Founder, Co-Director and main editor of Furtherfield.
  Art, technology and social change, since 1996
  http://www.furtherfield.org
  
  Furtherfield Gallery & Commons in the park
   Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQ
 http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery
   Currently writing a PhD at Birkbeck University, London
  https://birkbeck.academia.edu/MarcGarrett
  Just published: Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain
  Eds, Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Nathan Jones, & Sam Skinner
  Liverpool Press - http://bit.ly/2x8XlMK
   
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