Re: [MMM] Orpheus in the Frosted Field

Quite like the text of this Daniel
i particularly liked these lines
which i hope you don't mind me extracting

The book of the last light breaking
is not yet written,
nor half begun

Daniel_anthony_stearns wrote:
>
> As some of you may already know, I've recently been diagnosed with
> Lyme disease, though I suspect I've had it for at least a decade. A
> couple of months ago I had a peculiar dream where I came face-to-face
> with the "lyme entity"; no not the actual clinical microscopic spiral
> thing, but rather a strange abandoned Indian' canoe floating in a
> narrow river in a deep forest. On the canoe was an oddly painted
> symbol/glyph , which I at once understood to be the "lyme" . And in
> this dream there was no resolve or tidy end, just a symbolic and very
> resonant encounter with some deeply-rooted facet of one's context/
> condition. And if there was any message/meaning in the dream, it was
> that the lyme was an active entity.....a living thing in its own
> agenda ,one quite apart from mine, but not necessarily intentionally
> malignant.
>
> Over the last few months I've been working on a piece for Jacob
> Barton's ambitious 17-tone concert series. FWIW, I like 17-tone and
> think it's a very easy EDO to write in, but above and beyond that,
> and not so surprisingly I suppose ,I wrote a piece that deals with
> these topics (lyme, etc, albeit in an equally oblique way as the
> dream). I'm still not sure if the piece will be played or nor, it's
> not so user/performance-friendly on a short notice , but I know Jacob
> is a get-it-done kind of guy, so I have faith and if it's meant to
> be, so be it, and if not, so be that. In any event, here's the text
> FAwMbI :
>
> Orpheus in the Frosted Field
>
> In this "om" of moon-made shadow,
> night turns in its socket
> In this Cherubim ane Seraphim
>
> O ye! O ye!
> Turning in the tide,
> like fetus in the womb
>
> The book of the last light breaking
> is not yet written,
> nor half begun
>
> Shake your wild fists,
> golden flowers in October
> in a field around the bend
> twinning in and out of fences
> turning on the wind
>
> O ye, O ye!
> Stir the gleanings
> Shudder the rigging!
>
> wolf poppy, \moth mullein
> A-wooooo,
> ahhh-uuuUUUU,
> ahh--uuuuuUUUU
>
> Cator and Pollux,
> Orpheus in the frosted field,
>
> Like the reflection
> of the moon
> in the varicose eye
> of a partridge
> silhouetted against
> the darkness of space,
>
> A-wooooo, ah-uuuUUU
>
> Two notes trilled
> from dark to dark
> Isthmus connected day to day
>
> Bloodroots and Bristlecones
> Birch bark, Ponderosa pine;
> Watchers of the midnight sun
> Calcium in the photosphere
> Trapped wolves in a gong-tormented sea
>
> Stalks cracked
> Filaments flared
> Molecules compressed
> Molecules cooled
> and dark against the disk
> of the Doppler-shifted sun,
> two-hundred-fifty-billion stars
> fifteen-thousand light years thick
> pinwheel across the curve of the sky
> in a fountain of verdant light
>
> Like the bloody marrow in the bone
> and the periodic purr of the solar pulse,
> They come in on the high tides...
> on nights of wild storm
> on the blistering outer limits
>
> Worlds within worlds
> Juggling haloes of fire
>
> Glory glory hallelujah,
> glory glory hallelujah
> Glory glory hallelujah,
> glory glory hallelujah
>
> Glory glory hallelujah,
> glory glory hallelujah
> Glory glory hallelujah,
> ahh-uuuuu aaah-uuuuuu/
>
> Ahhh-uuuuuuuUUUUUU
>
> -- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/index.html>
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU <http://www.kxlu.com/main/index.asp> 88.9 FM Wed 8-9 pm Los Angeles

Wow---intense. Right now my day is going quite stressfully, so I need to listen to this later when I don't need to hear something relaxing, but it sounds cool, in that 'shot of pure LSD in the arm' kind of way.....;)

daniel_anthony_stearns wrote:
> For anyone who might be interested, I've uploaded a new piece, > Orpheus in the Frosted Field. This is a different piece than the > still unperformed piece of the same title that I wrote for Jacob > Barton's 17-tone concert series earlier this year, but the overall > thematic ideas fit together so wel that I've decided to use the same > title for both pieces. I owe a big thanks to Chris Shaffer whose > inspiration got this new Orpheus moving in the right direction... > thanks Chris. Technically, this is surely one of the most difficult > pieces I've ever worked on, and to make matters worse I had a > recording program meltdown halfway through and had to rerecord/replay > more parts than I care to remember! But, I think in the end > inspiration has survived the war of attrition and all the hard work > has paid off, and I hope somebody might find something in it that > they will enjoy--enjoy, perhaps being the wrong word as this is a > pretty tough piece, but I'm hoping the meaning won't be lost if the > piece resonates.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2ub5g6
>
> Orpheus in the Frosted Field
>
> dan stearns--instruments, noises and compositions
> also featuring (in order of appearance):
> Chris Shaffer--guitar, inspiration and other sonic stuff
> Jacob Barton--a 15-tet harpsichord ornament
> Rozencrantz the Sane--flying siren
> Pete Zolli--drums
> John Clark--flute
> Colin Malakie--arco upright and piano
>
>

Quite well illustrates that one cannot expect to go into the underworld and remained untouched. Even for Orphee'

Aaron K. Johnson wrote:
>
> Wow---intense. Right now my day is going quite stressfully, so I need to
> listen to this later when I don't need to hear something relaxing, but
> it sounds cool, in that 'shot of pure LSD in the arm' kind of way.....;)
>
> daniel_anthony_stearns wrote:
> > For anyone who might be interested, I've uploaded a new piece,
> > Orpheus in the Frosted Field. This is a different piece than the
> > still unperformed piece of the same title that I wrote for Jacob
> > Barton's 17-tone concert series earlier this year, but the overall
> > thematic ideas fit together so wel that I've decided to use the same
> > title for both pieces. I owe a big thanks to Chris Shaffer whose
> > inspiration got this new Orpheus moving in the right direction...
> > thanks Chris. Technically, this is surely one of the most difficult
> > pieces I've ever worked on, and to make matters worse I had a
> > recording program meltdown halfway through and had to rerecord/replay
> > more parts than I care to remember! But, I think in the end
> > inspiration has survived the war of attrition and all the hard work
> > has paid off, and I hope somebody might find something in it that
> > they will enjoy--enjoy, perhaps being the wrong word as this is a
> > pretty tough piece, but I'm hoping the meaning won't be lost if the
> > piece resonates.
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/2ub5g6 <http://tinyurl.com/2ub5g6>
> >
> > Orpheus in the Frosted Field
> >
> > dan stearns--instruments, noises and compositions
> > also featuring (in order of appearance):
> > Chris Shaffer--guitar, inspiration and other sonic stuff
> > Jacob Barton--a 15-tet harpsichord ornament
> > Rozencrantz the Sane--flying siren
> > Pete Zolli--drums
> > John Clark--flute
> > Colin Malakie--arco upright and piano
> >
> >
>
> -- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/index.html>
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU <http://www.kxlu.com/main/index.asp> 88.9 FM Wed 8-9 pm Los Angeles