[NetBehaviour] doubled down viola: is there value in anything?

Alan Sondheim sondheim at panix.com
Thu Sep 21 05:57:09 CEST 2023



doubled down viola: is there value in anything?

https://youtu.be/VaNHJFdCfBI video

forward and reversed viola solo at different speeds against a
foredrop of forward and reversed qin still images at different
speeds you get the idea. there are subtle changes throughout
something ultimately foolish and intolerable. sometimes this is
worth doing in order to test the boundaries of comprehension as
well as pleasure: can irritation be pleasurable? does it have
any value at all? is there any value in anything? is this
anything? is this something? let's ignore for the moment my
total inability to play any musical instrument, much less viola.
let's ignore the possibility that i'm a total fraud, that i farm
out pieces to a carefully selected group of musicians who desire
to remain incognito and do my bidding in exchange for properly
formatted cv's. that's not true at all; no violist would ever
play an instrument so crudely, so out of tune, so mistuned for
that matter, so anything, as this is perhaps. let's assume i ask
them to play deliberately out of tune so their own fine music is
transformed into something suitable for accompanying a whole
suite of forward and reversed qin still images at different
speeds, you get the idea, so there are subtle changes throughout
something ultimately foolish and intolerable. sometimes this is
worth doing in order to test the boundaries of comprehension as
well as pleasure: can irritation be pleasurable? does it have
any value at all? is there any value in anything?

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