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Indeterminacy: The Blueberry Interlude: Cold Dyeing with Blueberry Stems
Dyeing needn’t be an elaborate process, experiments have shown me. Or require costly – and sometimes quite hazardous and pongy – ingredients, sophisticated equipment and a PhD in chemistry. I pruned a couple of little blueberry bushes a few weeks … Continue reading
Liminal Space, the Prepared Piano and Indeterminacy – a Quick Note to Myself and Anybody Reading
The subject of this blog was inspired in part by the Liminal States & Thresholds for Change series of artworks by Turtle Moon Impressions blogger Janis Doucette. Liminal space is that threshold space which is between one state of being and … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Creativity, Inspiration, Liede, Music, Music Composition, Music Theory, Romanticism, Singing
Tagged Casper David Friedrich, Eichendorffer, German Romanticism, Indeterminacy, John Cage, Jonas Kaufmann, Leiderkreis, Liminal State, Mondnacht, Prepared Piano, Schumann
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Indeterminacy, Some Project Notes
John Cage’s Sonata and Interludes for Prepared Piano Visual Sound (Pink Sedum) for Prepared Pasta Maker
New Departures in Eco Printing – Impressures Negative Realities and Graphic Notation
More eco prints on watercolour paper. The deep brown-black of the sumac is the actual leaf. It fused with the paper because I made an extra-tight sandwich of the materials and steamed it for a longer period of time in … Continue reading
A Christmas Carol
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” (Dickens) Whatever ‘Christmas‘ means to you, enjoy! See you in 2018 Ann
Posted in Christmas Music, Music
Tagged andrea bocelli, Christmas, Christmas Music, Kodak Theater
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Passing It On: Rob Stevens
I’m not able to progress much of my own work to blog about in what has been a difficult and prolonged transitional period (I’ve already had to set writing and singing to one side quite a while back). I am … Continue reading
Walking with Shalott by the Light of Tabor, Noor, Nirvana, Ner Tamid, Diwali: A Response to Terrorists
Drawing-in the Withdrawn – Drawing in Meta-Meaning Mode led me to – a different approach entirely. It happens. Still, there is a connection, in that I am yet again drawn; drawn to let recent work inform me of my onward … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Creativity, Inspiration, Music, Singing, spirituality
Tagged Book of Proverbs, Buddhism, Diwali, Gyatso, Hinduism, Isa, Judaism, Karma, Light, love, Marium, Ner Tamid, Nirvana, Noor, Old Testament, St John Chrysostom, Tennyson, Terrorism, The Lady of Shalot, The Light of Tabor, Tora, Transfiguration, Venianim
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I am London – Requiem
Poem to the rhythm of Lloyd Webber’s Pie Jesu I am London – Requiem I am London I am Westminster there yesterday yesterday plans changed today I am alive I am alive I am alive I am alive I am … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Singing, Singing Sacred, spirituality
Tagged Andrew Lloyd Webber, Andrew Swait, Anna Netrebko, London Terror Attack, Pie Jesu, Requiem
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