You came to me We met, we merged Your eyes, two pools Limpid, serene No half measures I plunged, submerged Immersed within Aquamarine What once was clear Became infused Sanguine at first, When love was new Now left bereft My hue is bruised My colour bleeds Blue murex, blue They say: one drip into the … Read more
It comes to her in times like these, A-swaying gently in the breeze, Soft seaside sand on endless afternoons. That hollow ache, remembering Her innocence, the bloom of spring, Now lost forever, washed away too soon. Too restless now to stay in place, She slips into the shifting waves, Away from haunting memories on shore … Read more
Awareness pierced As though through the slow curving sparks above, While phosphor-gleaming surf was swirling round your boots, Tilting your poise. Infused, you knew the elemental frame: The fragile bond among all living things came clear. It’s been disturbed. You felt the equilibrium upset Some intervention knocked the symmetry a skew. Suspicion gnawed, The time … Read more
(DDT: Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) Dichloro, diphenyl, trichloro, ethane. The Nobel prize, perverse nobility. Born from destruction, spoils of war. A chemist conjured grim toxicity, Was gifted that guilt-stained reward. Dichloro, diphenyl, trichloro, ethane. Fortuitous discovery: Insecticide improves our lives. The capitalist industry Delivers bountiful supplies. Dichloro, diphenyl, trichloro, ethane. An unintended consequence: The compound lasts for centuries. … Read more
A. Your first approach. Tread yellow sand Swept into crescent dunes Scored with swerving ripples corrugate. When you debouch: Keen ozone tang, Brine sudden on your tongue, Bracing wash of sea breeze in your face. B. Slow rolling curls collapse, expire. Primordial, dull rhythm chants, Curl-fingered terraces advance, With sighing whisper hiss, retire. Continuous, smooth … Read more
Demure in your outworn attire, You blend discretely in the group, Shrug off the schoolyard taunts and skipping rope. Endure instead the numbing chores, domestic care, ’Till you can stealthily escape. Snakes and spiders, finches, ferns: Myriad forms reticulate. A miracle Unfathomable, Varieties Innumerable. From finger tips, to boughs leaf-spread, Up groove-worn hills, you comprehend … Read more
While compositionally unremarkable, Oblong is the result of a fresh attitude. Instead of striving for some sort of artistic growth, the piece emerged from simply playing around, venturing where inclination led. Its patterns and phrases are not square. Rather, they are irregular, asymmetric and often overlapping.
Here is where the riff used in “Galumph jr.” settled.
“Altostratus” is a three-voice hand-triggered modular synthesizer piece featuring long-held notes that could be thought to resemble altostratus undulatus clouds. The synthesizer is tuned with just intonation.
The 2022 Unthunk album Elliptic is based on the celestial mechanics concept of orbital resonance, which is the phenomenon wherein the orbits of bodies such as planets and moons may be synchronized, due to the gravitational forces among them. The rhythms in Elliptic’s pieces illustrate some of the notable synchronizations in our solar system. “Awaiting … Read more