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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 <[email protected]>
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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 <[email protected]>
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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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