Evocation Poème Symphonique
Once in a blue moon, (or in this case a blood moon), I shed my polished sophisticate exterior and get a little creative. Tonight is that night, so light the incense, don your beret and check out what's cookin'.
I seldom get into poetry, doing my best to avoid anything with a rhyme scheme or regular meter. But I do fancy a particular strain of poem - nonsense verse and cut-up/plunderphonia.
John Lennon developed his own delightful style of jabberwock in his books, In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works which inspired my first exercises writing "Lennonish" in college.
And in more recent years I found a fascination with the history of plunderphonics, perhaps best-executed by James Joyce is his masterwork, Finnegans Wake. This evening I tried my own hand at the cut-up method, constructing something of a self-portrait from fragments of my music library. The library will be my legacy and I hope it will survive far beyond my years, so its content seemed well-suited for such a task.
Evocation Poème Symphonique
pulse steady
a chance operation
in and out of phase
from houdini's musical box
deep distance kontakt
and the kosmische braindance
i sing the body electric
strange overtones
intergalactic echowaves
funky breaks and solo flute
one finger snap and the jazz of tomorrow
tricks of the light
cirrus minor
the broken radio of Istanbul station
turn me loose
walking like a shadow
voodoo fusion or synesthesia
a prayer for the paranoid
an index of metals
walkin' the blues
it's wonderland syndrome
tones for mental therapy
justified
ancient
and bird's lament
straight no chaser
alone again with the dawn coming up
we are the music makers
fast 'n bulbous
and the curse of ka'zar
all this and more
tonight at innerspace
Regular readers will undoubtedly pick up on 20-30 references to favorites from my collection. But I think it functions just as well without the cliff notes
Thanks for indulging me. Back to our regularly-scheduled exercises in library management.
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