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This gala day



He stands at the crossroads
listening to all the sounds
     the anticipation of the crowd
     the overheard pleading of a lover
and from each branching road
                   a brass band marching
                   the dense vibrance of gospel song
                   swaggering ragtime
                     and a lone piper from the north.

Anyone else would focus on one sound
but he blends the whole
         submitting to an overlapping aural feast
                knowing that this mingling of disparate tempi and tuning
                       will create a new music.

     All through the night he sits at his worn wooden desk
     pencilling a symphonic script
     built from the sounds of the day.
     The resulting collage
     is so like the stochastic music that the city composers create 
    from the computer generated random distributions.


In the morning
the clouds make temporal patterns
and the apples are fallen around the tree.
This beautiful aleatoric autumn.

 

 

music, aleatorics, autumn, chance, pattern, creation

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  • Bean Sidhe silver member
    October 24

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    "In the morning
    the clouds make temporal patterns
    and the apples are fallen around the tree.
    This beautiful aleatoric autumn."

    I love how you flawlessly infuse your writing with the music that touches your soul. So rarely have I come across someone who appreciates poetry and music in the depth that you but to further impress, you manage to combine them in such beautiful ways. What a Renaissance man!


  • Ilati Aza
    September 4

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    This is so beautiful. I want this made into a song, because I can hear a strange melody in my head when I read it. Very nice, one of my favorites from you so far.

    • Afxb
      September 5
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      Thankyou...this was inspired by going into an art exhibition...which was temporarily in a derelict shop...and the two artists had these two approaches ,,,but i could not tell which was which....and then I thought of the music of Charles Ives and of Xenakis.....and it all got inside my head almost like a mini film.