May 13, 2008
Step lively
…listen
…about the musicDance of the big feet.
There’s a lot of recent history waiting to be read in the mud flats of a low, low tide. Geese and gulls and far smaller birdies all leave their prints for a detective to decipher. Who went where? When? Why did they turn around? Where were they going? It’s a dance of chaos and delight, like one of those old step-by-numbers ballroom cha-cha charts gone insane.
Glenn Buttkus said,
May 13, 2008 @ 5:24 am
Mudflat melodies, and myriad traverses, with webbed and taloned toes leaving their imprints on the mud of time. Nice shot–good projection and imagination. I love your eye for detail. Your music got my feet jumping too, RE:PAIR for flute * oboe @ 1:05, part of the quad of 7 minute compostions that you have done, starting with baroque flutes and moving up into the modern instruments. Your flute and oboe 7 minute piece got to be premiered in Ontario, Canada, enit? I adore what Alan Rich of the LA WEEKLY said,
“A perky and throughly delightful duet for flute and oboe from local composer Alex Shapiro.” Well, not LA local no more, sir, no Silver Lake late night hanging outs. She is the island lady now, and spends her time between creative musings walking the beaches and meadows and forests of San Juan Island, like the mistress of her great estate, noticing every flower, every weed and mushroom, every bird and every critter; naming them, taming them, creating music with them and for them; no, not your basic California girl here; not the NYC hard-nosed shrill type anymore either–island mellow, and proud of it.
Dance of the Big Feet.
There’s a lot
of recent history
waiting
to be read
in the mud flats
of a low,
low tide.
Geese and gulls
and far smaller birdies;
all leave their prints
for a detective
to decipher.
Who went where?
When?
Why did they turn around?
Where were they going?
It’s a dance
of chaos and delight,
like one of those
old step-by-numbers
ballroom cha-cha charts
gone insane.
Alex Shapiro May 2008
And yes, this latest of your poetic musings, has already found its way to FFTR, for the perusal and enjoyment of even more bloggers.
Glenn
Alex Shapiro said,
May 13, 2008 @ 10:44 am
Just don’t tell the county assessor that I’m mistress of any Great Estate otherwise they’ll raise my property taxes! Ha!
Say, Glenn had mentioned a while back that he had been having trouble streaming the music files I always attach to my little outbursts. Here’s a link for a plugin for those of you on PCs, which might help, if anyone has had difficulty:
http://port25.technet.com/pages/windows-media-player-firefox-plugin-download.aspx
After all, this is a pixelsonic blog, and the sonic portion of that is significant!