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Brissance

from Then, and Then: a memoir by DATSON

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The physics of music.
Why do we play these archaic instruments? They more closely approximate the pure musical intervals as proposed by Pythagorus. I'm less than convinced by the currently standard Equal Temperament system used by most modern musicians & recommend Ross Duffin's book on the subject.

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Pacific Highway
Reprise to
scuttling coast
across broken land
Previous imagination
is feral in the forest
At night the fluttering wings
disrupt all sleep

Drinking
at the Buddah’s temple
or stranded
horizontal on nightclub floor
Panic
at the wrong end of a telescope

To sense all futures eclipsed
by the roaring hollow of now
Bark, freedom
and by tetragrammation
L .o .v. e.
Ankle, calf, heifer
Eventually
we all get to godhead
apparently

Brisance
gateway to Queensland spirit realm
Spring Hill baths at 1am
the pool surface
roiling oily moon altered fable

Where is the changing room Minotaur?
Under the hostess fast asleep
so we set her on fire
and watched his bow peep

What sacrifice can atone
for this state of disgrace
where even the peanut
wants to join the space race?

Speak her magnetic core
from gauss to Goss
minus to cross
potential difference
emitting the loss.

Tail lights
I told Venus

sweetest dreams

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from Then, and Then: a memoir, released June 1, 2020
© Geoffrey Datson and Annette Hughes, Produced by Geoffrey Datson, Recorded and mixed at Greenroom Studio Cooroy.

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GEOFFREY DATSON is a sound artist, combining spoken word, electronica and instrumentation in his recordings. Many poets recite their work to music, but few are also composers. Datson's work is a synthesis of forms of sonic expression in which the voice and the sound field are interdependent. ... more

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