A BUDDHIST PIECE ~ Poets Corner

THIS PIECE SPEAKS FOR US TO TAKE TIME TO MARVEL AT ALL THAT WE HAVE.

If I am holding a cup of water and I ask you,

"Is this cup empty?" you will say, "No, it is full of water."

But if I pour out the water and ask you again, you may say,

"Yes, it is empty."

But, empty of what?

Empty means empty of something. The cup cannot be empty of nothing.

"Empty" doesn't mean anything unless you know "empty of what?"

My cup is empty of water, but it's not empty of air.

To be empty is to be empty of something.

This is quite a discovery.

Unknown.

IMAGINATIONS OF ELY ~ Poets Corner

IMAGINATIONS OF ELY

A FEW WORDS OF MY BELIEF WRITTEN ON A PAINTING "IMAGINATIONS OF ELY" AS A PRESENT TO A FRIEND

"What feet of insects, animals, birds and man

have walked these wild places,

leaving their dim discovered song lines

that are our make up ?"

Felix Appelbe December 2020

N.N Solo Viola and Whale-song

N.N. is a new composition for solo viola and whale-song. It incorporates recordings from Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Centre, amongst others, of humpback and blue whales, whose vibrations are meant to be particularly healing.

I have titled it N.N. in reference to idealised no speech neural networks that tend to contrast human intelligence with animal intelligence whilst at the same time trying to unknowingly replicate it. In this way I’d like to remind us that there’s still so much we could learn from the animal world, and that, as a part of the ecosystem, we should try to protect it.

The music is a sort of interweaving learning, with the solo viola copying the whale-song in its own unique melodic way, such as through glissandi, descending phrases and harmonics. It is currently in computer generated form before live musician recording.

Multidisciplinary composer-performer, writer, artist
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