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Today's Topics:

   1. bloodriver amanuensis (Alan Sondheim)
   2. Blaan Faglung (Alan Sondheim)

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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 14:40:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>
To: netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org
Subject: [NetBehaviour] bloodriver amanuensis
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bloodriver amanuensis

http://www.alansondheim.org/bloodriver2.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/bloodriver3.jpg

the wound of 2 transliterated into the normative illumination of 3; the environment pales in comparison. it's all driven by the apparatus of a stopped video load; the central timing wheel is stilled as a result perhaps of a rupture somewhere along the way. the bloodflow parts and churns and is buried in the inverse rectitude of 3. the images resonate with the original bloodriver video as well as its cover image, bloodriver.jpg. bloodriver is also bloo-driver, the driven blue of the ocean churned to death.
death inverts. the illumination of death inverts death. this is progressive reportage which is never fulfilled, always incomplete; we like to believe the text is just around the corner, but nothing ever returns, or returns in the same form.
we give credence to blood as sign, but it is never sign, always empty; we inflate emptiness to the level of the sign. we call this transmission or a text. the text dissolves in the blood, the blood dissolves, the world dries, cauterizes. we will not be around for a final reading, nor any such asymptotic. dissolution of the blood empties. the planet empties. the timing wheel means nothing. it is a panic symptom, panic syndrome. the only thing that returns, turns, is the image. someone asked me about my books today, whether there are any new ones. there aren't any.
do not salvage these texts; the inevitable, as one is wont to say, is inevitable. they have always already disappeared.
nothing writes them. the blood is mine. the blood is mined, no salvage.

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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 03:23:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>
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Subject: [NetBehaviour] Blaan Faglung
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Blaan Faglung

for Arjho Carino Turner and Hans Brandeis

http://www.alansondheim.org/atl110.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/faglung.mp4
http://www.alansondheim.org/atl090.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/atl100.jpg

Years ago, I bought a hegelung from Music Inn, in Manhattan. I didn't know much about the instrument, but learned quickly, and through a series of odd coincidences I met Grace Nono, T'boli singer, musical advocate, and hegelung player; I also met, independently, her friend Hans Brandeis, ethnomusicologist and expert on the boat lute, a general name for the class of instruments that the hegelung belonged to. I've played hegelung for quite a while ( see audio below and my recent session with the brilliant Luke Damrosch mastering and on madal at http://www.alansondheim.org/dynsession31.jpg ). We're now in Atlanta, and Hans has introduced me to Arjho Carino Turner, who is Blaan and working with Blaan musicians in the Philippines; she is also working with Blaan communities in the United States.
Azure and I had an amazing talk with her and her husband Bernard, and her two children; we met at the Atlanta Zoo, and she brought a faglung with her, that she has given her husband.
The faglung and hegelung are related; the T'boli and Blaan are adjacent. We discussed ethnomusicology and its politics, the position of the Blaan in the Philippines, and boat lutes and the faglung in particular. Arjho doesn't play the instrument herself, and let me play it in the parking lot. I was careful with the tuning, since it hadn't been played for at least a decade (in the Philippines; Bernard doesn't play it), and the strings were delicate. But I was able to sound it somewhat, and it was beautiful; tuned up properly it would be outstanding!

All this by way of saying this has been one of the peak experiences of my life. The hegelung and faglung are, for me, uncanny instruments; they have a life and spirit of their own.
I'm hoping to hear more Blaan music (some of it is on YouTube), and possibly to help find a way to have a cd issued; I have one of T'boli music done by Mickey Hart with the assistance of Fred Lieberman. These musics should be heard; for me, they're transporting, meditative, energized, and deep.

We've been discussing all of this on Facebook; I wanted to put up something myself, since I can distribute this also to a few email lists and Facebook pages that might be interested. Thank you all! (Azure Carter took some of the photographs, by the
way.)

session with Luke Damrosch on madal, myself on hegelung -
http://www.alansondheim.org/hegandmadal.mp3

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