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Forty-eight to Sixteen documents my daily commute from Brooklyn to midtown Manhattan with sensors for my heartrate, breathing, and the cadence of my pedaling, along with chest-mounted video. Cellist Topu Lyo interprets my experience via a composition I derived from the sources that is precisely timed with the video. I am interested in 'performing' data and my and Topu's divergent but equally physical relationship to the information. Additionally, the physiological basis of empathy has implications for recent trends in media culture toward first-person viewpoints and the integration of biometrics into documentary. (Named after the gear ratio of my bike.) 

http://brianhouse.net/works/forty_eight_to_sixteen/

Project Created: 
June 2012
 

At Interrupt 2 and the noise thereafter

http://www.alansondheim.org/AS-CF-Sun.mp3

Chris Funkhouser, flute

Alan Sondheim, harmonic minor and valveless chromatic harmonicas

this was the first time we played together with flute and harmonica, that
is, and I've been noticing, having returned fromInterrupt 2, that my
typing has somehow goe from bad to worse, and I;m wondering if this is
early onset dementiia or an issue of stres; certainly the keyboards
haven't changed over the past fourdays, but the typing has turned to what
might be considered an almost chidish scrwal. sooner or later I'll just be
able to communicate with music, if that. in the mentaime I was interviewed

 
People: Alan Sondheim
Research: Urban Research
Tags: noise, music

Saddening

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

Being at the beginning of the Interrupt 2 event at Brown
University, I am realizing how sad letters are, and I
play this tune to show that.
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People: Alan Sondheim
Research: Sound
Tags: music, sound

ken bau and shenai

http://www.alansondheim.org/clack.mp3
http://www.alansondheim.org/cloak.mp3

experimenting, no circular breathing here, apologies
still breathing, apologies, still experimenting
still no circularity, apologies, still shenai and ken bau

 
People: Alan Sondheim
Research: Sound
Tags: sound, music

Music at the Bowery Poetry Club


Book party for Chris Funkhauser's New Directions in Digital Poetry.
Opening act:

Chris Funkhauser, flute
Chris Diasparra, baritone sax
Azure Carter, vocal and song (with Motu reverb)
Alan Sondheim, cobza (with reverb)

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

This is the sound I've been searching for recently - exoplanet
events - & after a short peaceful dream about my mother, waking
sadly, then walking on exoplanets, an event

 

playing melodica

http://www.alansondheim.org/melodica1.mp3 with reverb
http://www.alansondheim.org/melodica2.mp3 with reverb
http://www.alansondheim.org/melodica3.mp3 with reverb and pitch shift

yes, short of breath, but then a bit of the baritone
more experimentation, heading towards organ-saxophone
but thinking about shakuhachi which is unfair to both instruments

child companion reason period blessing melody
tiny mournful signal calling in soup of melody
and eate him with great melody. And so when they haue
nor grimmer sound than melody,

 
People: Alan Sondheim
Research: Sound
Tags: melodica, music, sound

playing together

http://lounge.espdisk.com/archives/773

or

http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/sess1m.mp3 (mono)
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/sess2m.mp3 (mono)
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/sess4m.mp3 (mono)
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/sess5m.mp3 (mono)

Chris Funkhauser, flute
Chris Diasparra, baritone
Azure Carter, voice and songs
Alan Sondheim, saz, oud, pipa

 

debris, dawning

http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/oudday1.mp3
left over from day1 performance; somehow the sound was
transformed into something unworldly and beautiful
http://www.alansondheim.org/dawning.mp4
left over from the performance materials, here for the color
it's the central gate that fascinates me, holds me
it's the same light over the Matterhorn I do believe

 
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