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Message 1 of 9 in Discussion

From: Susan (Original Message)

Sent: 3/24/2002 6:48 AM

(playing around with sound)

Adagio

merciless Spring

arriving.

that impermanent reunion,

membranes alive bursting,

climbing steadily

from dormancy stagnate -

to rushing stampede.

stalls built, open

to yielding stems,

the tremulous time approaches -

then Earth running.

3/23/02
Copyright©2002 Susan Katz.
All rights reserved.

Adagio.wav

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Message 2 of 9 in Discussion

From: Connor

Sent: 3/24/2002 10:50 PM

You read so well you could make a trip to the dentist sound melliflous.

This sounds damn good --apart from the synthisier fanfare!, wow! how could you do that to this! don't forget you can hire my lyre and me-- in fact i realise now it is a musical piece, as in the sound overrides the need for imagery. so I repent to some extent of my anti-latinate vitriol above.

Love the weight you give to sounds.

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Message 3 of 9 in Discussion

From: suzanne

Sent: 3/24/2002 11:12 PM

hahahaha

yeah - i can get pretty abstract. my style i guess. but it grows on you. haha

take a listen to Barber's Adagio for Strings.

the myth is self-explanatory.

until you repent all your sins, connor - yer not off the hook yet.

hahaha

suze

next time i have a party you can bring your lyre along. haha

remember one thing: a poet has lots tools at his/her disposal. they are there only as guides -- but it is not necessary to use any of them..

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Message 4 of 9 in Discussion

From: Connor

Sent: 3/25/2002 12:32 PM

I don't want to appear ignorant but who the hell is Barber? And what myth?-- dame Persephone getting out of Pluto's bedroom for March perhaps?

I don't think your style is abstract at all; I mean not from what I've read.

I don't like parties. I am a miserable git.

Re: tools, just don't use that fanfare more than twice. The first one was apt, the second hurt and the third damaged me irreparably.

If it wasn't for your melliflous tongue I would have given you 6/10. as it is you get 8/10. 2 points docked for the synth.. 2 extra points for the voice.

( woof)

Connor

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Message 5 of 9 in Discussion

Sent: 3/25/2002 1:20 PM

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Message 6 of 9 in Discussion

From: suzanne

Sent: 3/25/2002 4:01 PM

remind me NEVER to invite you two to a party. (nevermind the fact that i don't give parties.)

i agree tho' -- i wasn't too happy with the violin mix myself -- but as i said, i was fooling around. i'll refrain next time. heh.

yup alan - would've done the Barber if i could've.

connor - the entire myth of Demeter and Persephone is what is of interest to me.

oh the harvest of those Elysian fields.

later.

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Message 7 of 9 in Discussion

From: helen

Sent: 3/27/2002 3:48 AM

thank you for the poem susan.....lively......

alan.....i think i have heard the barber adagio in an opera performance......stumped though......i'm pretty sure it's on a pavoratti cd that i have.....

beautiful.......thank you......sounds like a butterfly stranded in a spider's web.

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Message 8 of 9 in Discussion

From: suzanne

Sent: 3/27/2002 5:20 AM

thanks, helen.

i dunno 'bout alan, but i've never heard that piece with lyrics set to them?!

have heard a number of strings symphonic tho'.

i gotta figure out better way to get sound i want -

like i wanted to do w/ Barber - but help is on the way.

susan ;)

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