[NetBehaviour] (un)limitations

[Alan Sondheim]

(un)limitations

http://www.alansondheim.org/P1100689.JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/unlimited.mp3 musima guitar
http://www.alansondheim.org/limitations.mp3 viola
http://www.alansondheim.org/P1100683.JPG

it's the physicality. i don't want to keep harping on this, but the
narrowed vectors of playing operate in untoward ways, keep me alive
at least for now. my viola playing has severe limitations; they're
all here, along with some interesting music. possibly. the musima
guitar, tuned down to B, feels unlimited to me, as if I'm wilding
or feral, finger- and hand-dancing. whatever might be a restraint
seems to have nothing to do with technique or the positioning of
the body, and everything to do with some elementary physics of the
organism, the sound of something untoward, wayward, reproductive,
dirty in exaltation. so then the viola. i want to use the bow, want
not to worry about intonation, playing in tune, positions and
strokes. so these are emergents, they keep me sane in the sense of
a remarkable hollowness to existence. everything interrelates, and
as i've said so many times, sound is always a dynamics, never an
examination; recordings are a distant shadowing ruined by
repetition. you can be sure this is always occurring, even when i'm
silent, writing or virtual worlding or articulating otherwise. so
here without apology. and then what to do beyond these.

( play viola against guitar, the roughness of the wood, bowhair,
bow - as if euclidean; and guitar? clearly projective geometries. )