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On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 6:49 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > please unsubscribe me form this list > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:netbehaviour-bounces@ > netbehaviour.org] On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: 28 November 2016 12:00 > To: [email protected] > Subject: NetBehaviour Digest, Vol 2912, Issue 1 > > Send NetBehaviour mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than > "Re: Contents of NetBehaviour digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. bloodriver amanuensis (Alan Sondheim) > 2. Blaan Faglung (Alan Sondheim) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 14:40:51 -0500 (EST) > From: Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NetBehaviour] bloodriver amanuensis > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > > > 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. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 03:23:17 -0500 (EST) > From: Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NetBehaviour] Blaan Faglung > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > End of NetBehaviour Digest, Vol 2912, Issue 1 > ********************************************* > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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