Monday, May 28, 2012

deep and incoherent breaks actually perfected http://www.alansondheim.org/puma1.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/puma2.mp4 down on unsuspecting earth; seaplumes rise from vast depths; ultraviolet bien. Ich bien la plume du votre tanta. Mercy much. faint plume of smoke would have been visible from the computer, if only Nous sont tres fatiguee sur le pont avec la plume de ma tant. earthquake because we've spoken through alarms in dark Clara night, plumes plumed fumarole of universal room from the room spurting a plume you see you look at oil plume and you think, yes, this is billow Dreams and spirits witness whispers of cranks and plumes

deep and incoherent breaks actually perfected

http://www.alansondheim.org/puma1.mp4
http://www.alansondheim.org/puma2.mp4

down on unsuspecting earth; seaplumes rise from vast depths; ultraviolet
bien. Ich bien la plume du votre tanta. Mercy much. faint plume of smoke
would have been visible from the computer, if only Nous sont tres fatiguee
sur le pont avec la plume de ma tant. earthquake because we've spoken
through alarms in dark Clara night, plumes plumed fumarole of universal
room from the room spurting a plume you see you look at oil plume and you
think, yes, this is billow Dreams and spirits witness whispers of cranks
and plumes

Friday, May 18, 2012

Sondheim's "Music"


Sondheim's "Music"

He always plays out of tune.
He plays too fast and doesn't modulate enough.
He's got like ADD and can't focus on an instrument.
He can't hear intervals at all.
He thinks every instrument is the same.
He thinks every instrument is some kind of drum.
He thinks he's a genius with whatever he does.
He doesn't know how to listen, not even to himself.
He plays the same thing over and over.
He's always showing off.
He's a total fake and doesn't know it.
He's fraud and really doesn't care.
His music has no depth at all.
His music is just a lot of runs.
He repeats the same chords over and over again.
He's melodic ideas are moronic.
When he can't escape he throws tricks in.
He seems to be in love with the minor scale.
His minor scale is always the same minor scale.
He shouldn't be surprised his audience is tiny.
He shouldn't be surprised no one buys his stuff.
He's too embarrassed to look at the audience.
He's always too nervous to play well.
He's always dissonant but he can't hear it.
He can't tell one scale from another.
He thinks he can master just about anything.
His intonation is atrocious.
He can't play at all in tune without frets.
He should put his flute away or sell it.
His repairs are a joke.
He'd be lucky if his instrument's in tune.
He has no sense of dynamics except loud.
He accompanies other musicians like he's deaf.
Someone should take his instruments away.
He huffs and puffs like he's actually working.
He can't really play with any sense of rhythm.
He's either working free or mumbling four-four time.
He's one of the few who has no idea what he's doing.
He plays the most forgettable stuff I ever heard.
He seems to be in love with his own noise.
He can't play anything extended at all.
He's ridiculous for thinking he's important.
He's always thinking he's breaking new ground.
He knows nothing about music.
He doesn't listen to anything except himself.
He's the most arrogant musician I ever heard.
He won't let anyone else touch his instruments.
When he can't play something he just gets rid of it.
He spams Facebook and email lists with his garbage.
He thinks playing fast makes his music better.
He can't read music and doesn't think it matters.
He doesn't know when a peg slips and he's playing.
He gets this pseudo-deep expression when he plays.
He's always trying to play with his eyes closed.
Other musicians run from him.
He's the most desperate musician I know.
He gives music a bad name.
He gives musicians a bad name.
He's a control freak and tries to run everything.
He's lucky if he has an audience of ten.
No one wants to listen to him.
The sooner his stuff is forgotten the better.

Three Improvisations



Three Improvisations

http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/greatoud1.mp3 oud for me and you
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/greatoud2.mp3 oud for Myk Friedman
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/greatcobza.mp3 cobza for everyone

there are p.m., post meridean, early afternoon improvisations
greatoud1 transforms 1/3 of the way through
greatcobza is as difficult as cobzas are wont to be
greatoud2 meanders glissandi until you're immersed in meandering
 glissandi

the oud's the Shehata oud and the cobza's the rare 10-stringed one
 enjoy. please. enjoy.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

extended meditation with extended denouement



extended meditation with extended denouement

http://www.alansondheim.org/labor.mp3 sarangi

please listen with earphone with as much fidelity
as possible, you will be rewarded.

the sarangi used was the antique one, which i now
am fairly certain is a modified sindhi sarangi
with the two metal melodic/drone strings replaced
by a traditional sarangi gut string. reverb was
added with adobe audition; the sarangi creates its
own cosmos or resonant space. labor of course is
fundamental to this music, which is exhausting to
play. as musicians we are never paid enough, not
for our sound, not for our gift of meditation to
you, and not for our architecture. here is then
the promised gift; the musician fades away and may
not have sufficient means to survive for any
reasonable length of time, however defined. the
sarangi, too, needs tending; the pressure on the
bridge and pull of the strings is tremendous.
Labor
Unknown Artist - Unknown Album
 ·  ·  · 3 minutes ago · 

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

FAST FAST FIDDLE



FAST FAST FIDDLE


for all you fiddlers out there
for Charlie beaten the devil I beat you
for great Jerry E. and the firecracker boys and girls
for the Swedish monk on Wednesdays in Morgantown WV
for Stephen Dydo and his snap-to-em hands
I got you all beat
I got you run around circles in you
I got your circles coming back to your circles
I don't leave the straight path the crooked path
for all you fiddlers out there I'm the new guy in town
Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania Rules!!!

http://www.alansondheim.org/fiddler.mp3