[NetBehaviour] four sonnets, text +music

[Michael Szpakowski]

Alan
Meant to say the other day how much I liked both text and music here.
I love just about all your work but I must admit I have a particular weakness for pieces that are somehow both corralled and liberated by an engagement with "traditional" forms ( not just forms - a similar effect sometimes happens when you reference particular *kinds* of language or when you riff off source material -it's a kind of groundedness-in-a- tradition/iconoclasm opposition that really works for me.)
best wishes
michael 



--- On Fri, 6/11/10, Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:

> From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>
> Subject: [NetBehaviour] four sonnets, text +music
> To: netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org
> Date: Friday, June 11, 2010, 2:06 AM
> 
> 
> four sonnets
> 
> three meditations with kemanche,
> transfigured with amplitude normalization
> with heavy hiss reduction
> with reverberation
> 
> so that the speech comes through,
> so that saying is unhindered
> with encumbrance of speaker or speaking
> with encumbrance of speech or song
> 
> unwrap the words like young tendrils,
> unharboring worlds and secret assignations
> molecular and other distinctions of quality
> traversing phenomena and quality
> 
> remembering and releasing the form
> virtual meditating, moment of almost form
> 
> http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/whatisit4.mp3
> http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/whatisit5.mp3
> http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/whatisit6.mp3
> 
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