poetry
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Tech Talk
We were talking tech about the Jetsons watch that takes calls and your pulse and a tablet with glass touchscreen then I remembered my old computer in the 90s with black and white graphics and a MIDI connection beloved for simulating music I said I’m astonished by digital’s latest and do you think maybe one day our minds will… Continue reading
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(YouTube Feed)
I (fill in the blank)’d for one month, here’s what happened Five things that are harder to do than (fill in the blank) How to make (fill in the bank) sound like (fill in the blank) Everything you need to know about (fill in the blank) The ultimate (fill in the blank) workout Ten tips for (fill in the blank) How… Continue reading
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Music Listening 2
Music sounds different in the morning or late at night when you’re impatient or even-tempered when it’s your own or a stranger’s when you imagine her listening when it’s bonafide like Bach or played by the guy on the train who sings Neil Young badly when you’re wishing you were more skilled at listening when… Continue reading
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Subway Band
The cover band in Times Square that only plays Beatles songs sounds broken their songs lurch along unsteady and strum heavy rushing beats and pitchy vocals just holding together but the tunes still travel memory maps of the early days singing a hard days night at a pub in Hamburg because even ragged music doesn’t feel sorry… Continue reading
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Taking Measure
It starts with the crosswalk sign the walking guy turns into a flashing hand and the time counting backwards numbers I trace under my breath and sync with my footsteps then I look up and around and notice other measures billboards flickering car horns beeping pedestrian counterpoint the fading light felt as clock counting subdividing… Continue reading
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Heavy Metal Tee
The lady walks the dog wearing a Metallica shirt a fact once noticed complicates my assumptions about what I thought I knew –is the shirt ironic or fan fashion?– because the music you like says so much about what it feels to be you. Continue reading
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Iterations
Foxes and dogs. The quick beats the lazy. Jumping over the fence. The jumping fox, the lazy dog. The fence and the dog beat laziness, quickly. Brown dogs, lazy foxes, jumping quick over the fence. The quick brown dog-fox jumps lazily. Quick—the lazy fox-dog jumps! The quick brown fox lazily jumps over the dog. The… Continue reading
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Second Hand Clock
The second hand of the clock at the dry cleaners is racing I notice it as she’s charging my card just over ten dollars the minimum fee most second hands go tick-tick even if the ticking is a silent measure you see its discrete steps a mechanical resistance against forward motion but this hand is liquid a Dali-esque melting… Continue reading
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Hardcore Ambient
I notice the ambient style at concerts and on recordings a layered thick dense and noisy sound a sound so deep I can’t see its bottom a processed sound it disguises the melodies disfigures the chords paints over the rhythms with smears of snap crackle and pop as if the musicians don’t want you know them or… Continue reading
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Music Lessons 2
Music is like an organism a delicate constellation of interrelated parts each of which needs to work perfectly to maintain the spell like a living thing robust when moving well flexible and even-tempered like a biology in sound one beat ahead of its own extinction. Continue reading
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