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A day out in the woods
I spent a wonderful day out in our woods and fields yesterday. It’s extremely cold right now, but heartening. The sun is out almost every morning, and I feel very much at home in the vast expanse of the American mid-west. It feels like a lifetime has gone by since I recorded this little idea: [display_podcast] Add this post to: Author and date: Mark (2007-12-26) Categories: Diary · Downloads Comments: Comments (0)
Lowell, Indiana: A note from home
It’s true, I never thought the time would come, but I am now of an age where I belong to “those of a certain generation”. I guess I always thought that life would just make an exception for me, moving just a bit more slowly maybe, a bit more gently, protecting me, rather lovingly, a bit more kindly. Life, instead, has moved too quickly for my taste - and with more indifference, I might add. The many years have congealed into a single web, thin, and barely wide enough to cover my tracks. I am so grateful to be home. I am so grateful to be home. So grateful… MP3 Download: Theme and Variation 1 (192kb @ 2.5mb) Author and date: Mark (2007-12-21) Categories: Diary · Downloads Comments: Comments (1)
Southern Amp sneak previewDrove down to the AMI stadium today to pick up artist and vehicle passes for Southern Amp. It’s actually a rather interesting vibe there. The stadium was absolutely flooded with sunlight, whilst the corridors and suites overlooking the grounds were calm, empty and air-conditioned to perfection. On my way out, I ducked into one of the vacant suites to snap a few shots of ground zero:
I couldn’t help but notice the fact that I only saw two stages, not three. Turns out I was on a fools errand, as the third stage was actually located right behind the stadium, and not inside it, as I had assumed:
This actually strikes me as an excellent solution, as it means that our more intimate set won’t be drowned out by the massive P.A. of the main stage. Furthermore, I am so relieved that they decided to place the CHART stage inside a tent, rather than just setting up a small stage in the middle of nowhere. The advantage, aside from being weather-proof, is that a tent helps create a much more intimate environment, which should be of great asset considering our sound and performance style. I’m looking forward to this now! We’re on from 11.45 to 12.20 am, and although most ticket holders probably won’t be arriving until far later in the afternoon, we’ll be playing our heart and soul out for those 35 minutes. As the Germans say: “Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund” (”Morninghour has Gold in it’s mouth”). The moral of the story? We’re excited about Southern Amp and German proverbs are the stuff of lunacy. Add this post to: Author and date: Mark (2007-11-09) Categories: Diary · Live · Photos · Southern Amp Comments: Comments (0)
Stillness, poetry and music
Mary is generally very good at living. She is highly intelligent, well-educated, and enviably successful at making sound and moral decisions in her life. She also happens to be a poet with a marvelous knack for transforming the familiar and forgotten into something odd, gentle and worth remembering:
Somewhere Between Here and There At dusk, when tide is low, the silver water turns dull
Songs of ours where Mary’s poetry can be heard: An old piece of mine called One Of Many Dinner Conversations [mp3 6.3MB], and two songs off of the new album, A Maze and Amazement, called Solitaire [video on cliptip] and Remember The Stillness. Remember The Stillness
I can’t rememember the precise moment when I started paying more attention to the combination of spoken word and music, but suffice it to say it’s been a few years now, and my interest in it continues to intensify. Here are three marvelous examples from the classical world:
Philip Glass – Knee 5
Author and date: Mark (2007-10-30) Categories: A Maze And Amazement · Composition · Diary · Downloads · Videos Comments: Comments (4)
Dayvan CowboyJust for a moment my world is brightly lit. Boards of Canada is droning major chords through my sun-flooded living room, thick with glittering dust. Today is spring cleaning day; tomorrow might yet be beautiful; next month I will let myself fall into the great America; and next year everything is possible again. Add this post to: Author and date: Mark (2007-10-25) Categories: Diary Comments: Comments (0)
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