Wednesday, May 23, 2012

here comes trudy


trudy

sometimes you just make error after error until
you're fascinated by them and thee occur in the
registers of timbre and approach to the instrument
itself. you're locked in there and produce the
first half of trudy. sometimes you just play
slowly and the timbre comes, bringing with it the
potential for release, but you're remaining
guarded and can do little with it, and this
produces the second half of trudy. sometimes you
have a premonition in the first half and a memory
in the second and that seems interesting to you
and you hold onto them as they bring life farther
into consciousness, holding the bad things at bay.
here is that consciousness and here is something
interesting, in 'trudy.'

http://www.alansondheim.org/trudy.mp3

so i wrote this and waiting for you to put your own work up, thought
this is prescient, if there are virtual avatars are premonitions and  
postmonitions, why not sonic phenomena, outside of all standardized
language, saying something almost coherent, then coherent, then
almost audible, then audible, here, then

2 comments:

  1. "outside of all standardized language, saying something almost coherent, then coherent, then almost audible, then audible"

    It's interesting to compare the sonic language of 'trudy' to the "linguistic carapace or skeleton referencing something absent, something lost in language or thought" that is the debris in 'anorectic avatar redux' ( http://anorecticavatar.blogspot.com/2012/05/anorectic-avatar-redux.html )

    When we listen to 'trudy', 'trudy' gets inside us and envelopes us, affects us. We feel, we move to the rhythm, we can interpret, we understand... something. The linguistic carapace affects us less (at least, it affects me less). It may reference "something absent, something lost" but I don't feel or sense the loss. The glyphs and their configuration don't hold me the way the sound holds me. It becomes a pattern, more textile than textual. Like wallpaper. As a pattern, it's full, quite busy.

    [I'll copy this into the comments for the other post too]

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  2. I replied on the other post - hopefully it came through, I got an Error 503, described as broken redirect.

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