hope this might interest someone? fwiw, still riding out long covid, bleary Long-necked saz, the glimpse https://youtu.be/0jhmH3CeUbY video The long-necked saz is an immense pleasure to play, quite large, the neck like a playing field, fingers and hands delighting in movement around it, the sound swirls, the body gate may be opened and closed, the sounds changes thereby, this one is from around 1960 and in excellent condition after being worked on by Amir Vahab if I remember correctly, and perhaps I don't, I can lose myself in the sound, remember some intervals from a very old Ethiopian recording I heard decades ago that stayed with me since then, it's a way of approaching satori, true enough I added an overlay from a virtual world (because I could, because the virtual wants to participate, wants to hear what becomes real as all sound is as real as all sound), it's not I who play this instrument, but this instrument which plays me, such close agreement among us, an enlightenment, writing this while BBC portrays Gaza and elsewhere, not that music is a salvation, but an implement or accompaniment, a friend that allows me to face, to speak, elsewhere, clouds outside, sun coming in and out, shadows, writing this indoors, is any place safe now, from war, from disease, from dis-ease?, and what is it to welcome to be welcomed, sound and light, the _glimpse_ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Long-necked saz, the glimpse
Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour Thu, 09 May 2024 13:24:18 -0700
