Waking Up Is A Good Start / The Future, Pressing In / Hear Something
/ Courteous Bow / Embracing Held / The Dawn Of Atoms / And The
Comtemplative Return / With Crossing Bell And Whiff / Rumble
6:58
2
Its Decay A Sigh
0:37
3
Crinkles And Dropped Rock / Hard Plucked / Walking The Stick / Found
The Rattles / A Constitution Begins / Prjngow Gow / Repetition Theme
Emerges / Construction At The Untaut Ends - Periphery Sound / String
Ends And Dry Cleaning Rack Duet
8:55
4
Short Walk
0:47
5
Very Ripe / The Rebellious Response To Meaningful Music / And Its
Obstinate But Dedicated End / Immediate Reprise / Looking / Found /
Synchronos With Evasive Auto / A Melodic Suite Of Booweep / A Dry
Cleaner Runs Through It / In Helpless Response / The Gastro-Vocal
Response / Outdoors They Honk / Okay Music Now / NO / A Soft Bird
Outside, Harmonics Inside / Diligent Musician Returns / Listening Knows
The Time
8:14
6
The Beginning Of The Low Rumbles / Siren With Strings / Thumbnail Scratch Tone / Resolved To Silence, A Ding Inspires Return
4:05
7
A Daxophone Prayer Play / String Pedal, Stick Melody / When A Walk Becomes A Vibration / Friction Is Beauty, Tone Follows
4:30
8
The Return Of A Future Pressing / When A Sniff Enters The Music
2:10
9
Stringboards Want To Sing / The Autos B(e(l))ow / The Idea Of
Repitition Returns / Resonance Revealed And Plucking Is Inspired /
Breathing Calms And Helps Me To Live / Phrased By Nature, Repetition
Proceeds / Converting, It Can / Naive Acting
6:06
10
Whiffle / Rang And Pop / Intangled Query / Listening To Harmonics
From Action / Bridging And Return / Hyperactive Cleaners Did It / Run
The String / The Waited Response To
5:58
11
Stringboards In The Air
0:54
12
First Stoll Rhythm With Multi Harmonic And Melodic Mood
0:51
13
Return
1:35
14
Return, First Glow
1:48
15
Return
0:31
16
Distal Ring Shimmer And Glow, Speak
0:51
17
Rhythm Decay And Final Construct / Little Ring To Change / Breathing Into It / A Due Perfecto
Recorded on July 19, 1997
Transferred and edited on January 7 & 8, 1999
Encouragement and inclusion: Elizabeth Grayson Eudy
Mastered on March 24, 1999
Edition of 1100 copies.
"At a woodshop I was renting I had been messing with attaching strings
to collected throwaway(found) pieces of plywood. I had a collection of
used strings of many types: guitar, bass guitar, cello, violin,
dulcimer, harp, piano, along with some types of raw wire including brass
and nylon monofilament. I had heard Ellen Fullman's Long String
Instrument and wanted to experiment with making strings in long lengths.
I enjoyed using two strings to make a longer combined length and found
the results to be shimmering. My woodshop mate Peter Bonnell and I were
bathed in this new sound unleashed - gongs or distant cymbals. Some kind
of defiance of visual representation - a piece of used plywood with
some strings across it. What an anomaly!
Even before the sessions, Eric Lanzillotta had asked me about making
an installation with the boards, but I was no artist. Installation.
Just the word would still a creative in the floodlight of expectation.
This doe eyed doer needed a push. We agreed that I could put the boards
up as I made them and this made the whole project seem possible. I began
by installing a couple of the stringboards directly onto the wall
making the entire wall a secondary resonator. While the wall changed
shape weekly, flaunting a broken window frame with broken window and
strings or some other momentarily invented musical object each week
along with a perpetual recomposition of stringboards, the final
installation consisted mostly of ~10 stringboards ranging in size from 1
to 8 feet in length with an additional two stringboards in the bathroom
for potty play."
