Work in progress

Carry him home

Going My Way

Three Romances for Orchestra
Composed between July-October 2023.

1. I lie here thinking of you [0:00]
2. I see a wild civility [4:59]
3.  When I die, I want your hands on my eyes [11:11]

Composed as a sequel to my Three Instances for Orchestra, the difference between these pieces and its predecessor is exactly in the title (despite the formal similarities: a moderately paced first movement, a fast second movement and a slow third). The Instances are more abstract in their content, besides being composed for a smaller orchestra. The Romances are more explicitly "amoureux", love-struck. 

I preface each movement with a line from a love poem. The first movement, based on "Love Song" by William Carlos Williams, is a yearning address from one lover to another separated by a great distance. The second, from "Delight in Disorder" by Robert Herrick, highlights the beauty of imperfection. The third movement, inspired by Pablo Neruda, brings the cycle to a full circle with death and acceptance.

Love Song – William Carlos Williams
I lie here thinking of you:—
 
the stain of love
is upon the world!
Yellow, yellow, yellow
it eats into the leaves,
smears with saffron
the horned branches that lean
heavily
against a smooth purple sky!
There is no light
only a honey-thick stain
that drips from leaf to leaf
and limb to limb
spoiling the colors
of the whole world—
 
you far off there under
the wine-red selvage of the west!


Delight in Disorder – Robert Herrick 

A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness;
A lawn about the shoulders thrown
Into a fine distraction;
An erring lace, which here and there
Enthrals the crimson stomacher;
A cuff neglectful, and thereby
Ribands to flow confusedly;
A winning wave, deserving note,
In the tempestuous petticoat;
A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
I see a wild civility:
Do more bewitch me, than when art
Is too precise in every part.


When I die, I want your hands on my eyes – Pablo Neruda 

When I die, I want your hands on my eyes.
I want the light and wheat of your beloved hands to pass their freshness over me once more.
I want to feel the softness that changed my destiny.

I want you to live while I wait for you, asleep.
I want your ears still to hear the wind, I want you to sniff the sea's aroma that we loved together,
to continue to walk on the sand we walk on.

I want what I love to continue to live,
and you whom I love and sang above everything else.
to continue to flourish, full-flowered.

So that you can reach everything my love directs you to.
So that my shadow can travel along in your hair,
so that everything can learn the reason for my song.

Three Romances for Orchestra (2023)

Michael Mooser 
This is in response to the wonderful naviarhaiku series from Naviar Records in the UK. this is challenge 511, I did the first 52 the first year and occassionally through the years to show my support of collaboration. Starting to be back into it now and enjoying it. Hope you do as well, it is emoting what the haiku says, I hope.

in dark autumn nights dew and the new bamboo shoots reaching out to moon        naviarhaiku 511

:::
my contribution
to
Naviar Records
Haiku Challenge 511

my interpretation of a
haiku
by
Shubham Dasgupta

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in dark autumn nights
dew and the new bamboo shoots
reaching out to moon

in dark ::: naviar haiku 511

release date : 25/10/2023 
 naviarhaiku512 – Endless echo

Endless echo
footsteps on an empty house
once full of life

Third poem written by me that gets featured in the haiku challenge. As always, I hope you’ll find it inspiring.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 1st November 2023

Haiku by Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Picture by Raya Mal https://unsplash.com/photos/closed-window-ggeI8TyPeZM

Endless Echo Loop   (naviarhaiku512)

Composition inspired by haiku written by Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Endless echo
Footsteps on an empty house
Once full of life

Once Full Of Life

Once Full Of Life - (naviarhaiku512)

This is a response to naviarhaiku challenge 512

Endless echo
footsteps on an empty house
once full of life

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/10/25/naviarhaiku512-endless-echo/

Endless echo footsteps on an empty house once full of life naviarhaiku 512

Electronic composition inspired by haiku:

A Black Dog

A black dog Transformed into a lantern! The way in snow

Transformed

Transformed - (naviarhaiku513)

The Wrong Trees

From a series of (almost) daily ocean glimpses. The music is composed to a video of the sea (photons captured fresh every day). You can experience the full video version: https://youtu.be/ZK6-HB998Bg

Glimpse 1536 (Dec 16 2025)

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