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Alan Sondheim, "T'other Little Tune"

The only electronic music composer and improviser on ESP, delivered his 2d production to the label in May, 1968.

Ruth Ann defined herself in these notes:
"My professional career consists of trying to follow the changes in what's sounding thru a tape recorder +then reassimilating these changes. I actually am merely a child who has an electric throat +who dearly dislikes death. I fear the American public + I love the world." To this I would add "fall asleep". Also, "the range of energies covered by the diagram is". About music I had this to say: to play perfectly in tune is to limit many possibilities. What do we mean by in tune. Again. Pay no attention that you may not understand a piece of new music. Let it react on you. Perhaps fall asleep. Twice so far is sleep mentioned. A technical note: these pieces are pure improvisation. Neither key nor commencing tone was discussed. Whatever rhythm there is flows naturally. "Only western man walks in two-four time: Relax, etc. The depth here is what you bring to it. There are changes enough. "Coherent light." Move to it. Our bassist has played jaza, hard bop, I don't know, for years. He also makes films. The drummer is an insurance man, the trumpeter and the drummer come out of bop and rock-and-roll. The tabla player once led an Afrocuban quartet; they played New England. He did the cover. I come from the hills of Pennsylvania. I play thirty-some instruments. Eleven of these help form the piece on this tape. There is only one. June is not a month. 770 reminds me of computers. Now this music. It is ritual. It is: create your music with your audience; create it together. The idea of playing for oneself is nonsense; otherwise, you would not be before them in the first place. Sources, for those interested: Yemen, India, Bali, Jazz, China Israel, France, etc. The sona is a chinese doublereed instrument. My koto is actually a 16-string ch'in. The bansari is an Indian flute, here, rosewood. The suling is an Indonesian flute. The clarinet is in C, made about 1850. The coranglais (English horn) is ca. 1880.

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