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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.

lyrics

Beneath the gilded dome
flaked leaf paper altar burn
Collapse inwards
Your garden of Eden unfolds
within the eye of God

Pantheon of clouds
stream o’er head
past iris, tulip, pupil
bulb of all knowledge
flickers in a half life so intense
of ten million light years

You who have read to me
memories of mother
laid upon mother
laid upon mother
back into the earth
The fragile grid
of all our race histories
held, tender to heart
and wrapped as heirlooms
silent under care

So soft, as not a hares breath
disturbs
utter
rapt
concentration
Prayers passed forward
mother to son
son to daughter
daughter to child
And you said,
Look only at six paintings
because the seventh is you

This Easter
symmetrical but not quite
in smell so sacred
we know it
in the dark night of the soul
across crowded dance floor

Shimmer the fabric of time
slow spinning,
magnetic in gyroscope
transparent globe, flux
field

Forever
is never
through the portal of consciousness
as true poet
is the fenestration
of fire word

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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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