koreahttp://espdisk.com/alansondheim/yi.mp3oud, double-course strings played individually: i worked this outoriginally for cobza; here it creates bell-like tones resonantwith the poetics of the origin of the world. i hallucinated korea,playing the figures of goddesses and dragons from the great tomb.i hallucinated figures making their way slowly across the stretchof strings, roads of limited durations. i hallucinated themliterally, my eyes closed, head pressed against the belly of theinstrument, its vibrations my very own, the singular music ofhistorical memory occasioned by the figures; it was their memory,not mine, they communicated through the murmur of the wood. for