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At 8:26 I make a video, then finish off the hour, pack up, head home, and get ready to start my day, which includes a couple of short pieces of writing I need to complete, several students, some domestic tasks, a bit of dog-walking, some video editing, a meeting, and a rehearsal. I'm done with postcards in this final week; all that's left is phonebanking and canvassing.
See you tomorrow.
Man With Sign
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Intermittently I do various bol-bant sequences, moving up to bursts of triple- and quadruple-time text manipulation before landing back at the central point. Often the resolution entails a quarter-second of silence, with the sung line emerging on the afterbeat, a very pleasing approach that enhances a sense of relaxation even as melodic density is intensified.
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...the composed material to form an underpinning of near-continuous variation, in which virtually the only consistent point is the arrival at the Sam on the words "barase meha." Everything else is up for grabs. Today my voice is warmed up from the first half-hour, and the resulting freedom of motion allows me great freedom of expression.
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All this before I finally turn on the tabla at a sedate mm. 79, a tempo of teentaal in which the flow of impulses from the bayan (bass drum) feels like a grand procession. At this speed the giant binary underlying teentaal feels portentous, a coiling and uncoiling spring of huge power. My approach to the song, "bijari chamake", is as free as I can make it, relying on...
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I continue practicing elaborate melodic filigree in Raga Mian ki Malhar, with the first thirty minutes of today's riyaaz entirely focused on pure melody. I vocalize sargam passages with varying degrees of articulation, explore the use of the jaw for intermittent muscular "pushing" to articulate particular points in the line, and work on range extension too.
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Very heavy traffic this morning with a good number of friendly responses, at least those I see when my eyes are open. Because about sixty percent of the time I've got my eyes shut, remaining as much as possible in a relaxed, almost hypnopompic, state. But when I open them — waves and smiles. And the get-a-job guy yelling "TRUMP! TRUMP!" as he goes by.
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Man With Sign, October 27, 02026
I wake with the alarm, lurch downstairs, and drink my coffee (plus a slice of yesterday's freshly baked bread, yum) before heading out into the pleasantly cool morning. Reaching Roosevelt Circle at 7:31, I set up my big sign, couple my loudspeaker, and lean on the railing holding up EVERY DISASTER MOVIE STARTS WITH A SCIENTIST BEING IGNORED. No Craige today.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygae85dkJds
#ClimateChaos #GlobalWarming #HindustaniMusic #CitizenActivism
Congratulations to Lula and the people of Brazil. May yesterday's elections both there and in Serbia signal a growing anti-fascist wave that will wash over my battered and beleaguered nation as well in the days to come! I will be very grateful to have even a few months' respite from the Most Important Election Of Our Lifetime, which seems to be happening constantly.
See you tomorrow.
Man With Sign
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At 8:26 I make a video, then sing through the rest of the hour, pack up, walk homeward for a day of teaching, errands, resistance tasks, and a meeting. I am almost finished with my last batch of voter postcards; I did four hours of phone-banking over the weekend; I've got a loaf of bread to bake and a Registry of Motor Vehicles to visit and a bunch of video to edit.
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...so hopefully over this week I'll build up my vocal and muscular reserves to give this wonderful song the treatment it deserves. This work is also allied with a performance at NEC in the second week of November, in which a snippet of this song will be part of a larger composition built around rainy-season themes. Fun.
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My voice is hoarse and intermittently dysphonic at first, especially around the passaggio where it takes great vigilance at the beginning to avoid a splintering of the sound. After about twenty minutes' warmup, this is largely resolved, but it's part of a longer-term trend in which it takes longer to get a smooth flow from bottom to top of my range. Today I get up to a high Bb...
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...and I can if necessary sing nearly the full asthai text in less than one cycle, which means I can start well-nigh anywhere and land the resolution. So the work of this week is less about internalizing the song than about building new improvisational gestures that go beyond the melodic motions I already know thoroughly and deeply.
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Today's practice is focused on the rainy-season raga Mian ki Malhar, and the medium-slow teentaal composition "Bijari chamake." After a few minutes of lower-register warmup, I start the tabla at a relaxed 80 bpm and begin going over the asthai, which is a long-familiar piece that allows me great freedom of expression. At this tempo there is ample room for rhythmic compression...
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Traffic is heavy but mostly looking straight ahead; I get a few waves and smiles but otherwise...well, they leave me alone, I leave them alone. The morning is cold; from time to time I can see my breath make a light cloud of vapor as it condenses. I shoulda worn my long underwear for greater comfort!
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Man With Sign, October 26, 02026
I wake with the alarm in the blessed aftermath of a good night's sleep (rendered sweeter by the election results from Brazil just as I was going to bed), drink my coffee in the kitchen, and head to Roosevelt Circle in the muted light. Arriving at 7:32, a soloist, I set up my big sign, couple my loudspeaker, & hold up my customary ALL-BLACK sign for the Monday rush hour.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nCdeZ7EYC4
#ClimateChaos #GlobalWarming #HindustaniMusic #CitizenActivism