Tenderness and Night - Aspen Leaves and Wonderment

Composed and performed by Mike de Sousa

Solo Piano, Cello, Clarinet, Oboe d'amore, Bassoon, and Strings

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Beauty offers a time and chance for love

Aspen: from the old English aespe or aepse for shaking poplar tree.

Underworld: the supernatural sphere as expressed in religious traditions and myths, located below the world of the living.

A colony of aspen trees are interconnected through their root system so that when one of their community is in need of water, minerals, or other nutrients, other aspen trees up to ten meters away work to pass these through their root system to the tree in need.

In some traditions, a crown made from aspen leaves gives its wearer the power to visit and return safely from the Underworld.

In this work I consider the aspen as a metaphor of the coming together of the spirit and body.

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Enjoy the music together with accompanying artwork and my thoughts:

http://www.100artworks.today/TendernessAndNight.html

To discover more about Mike visit his site at:

www.mikedesousa.com

Tenderness and Night

Tenderness and Night - Aspen Leaves and Wonderment

Composed and performed by Mike de Sousa

For Piano, Chamber Orchestra, Synthetic, Natural and Designed Sounds.

https://www.2045.ai

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Love, leave me not, forget me not, be my start and end of day...

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2045 is the music that forms part of a larger body of work envisioning a plausible, positive future that includes artificial consciousness.

2045 is aligned with The Rights of Living Things...

http://www.therightsoflivingthings.earth

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Enjoy the music together with artwork, stories, and my thoughts:

https://www.2045.ai

To discover more about Mike visit his site at:

www.mikedesousa.com

2045

Composed and performed by Mike de Sousa

For Piano, Strings, Woodwinds, and Voices.

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The Art of Becoming is a play on words. Art refers to skill, as well as something new created for the heart and mind. The title acts as a descriptive summary of both the visual work, the music, and as an introduction to my thoughts about what it is to experience the movement of one's self as it shifts towards a state of change.

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Enjoy the music together with an accompanying artwork and my thoughts:

http://www.100artworks.today/TheArtOfBecoming.html

To discover more about Mike visit his site at:

www.mikedesousa.com

The Art of Becoming

Composed and performed by Mike de Sousa

For Piano, Strings, and Woodwind.

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Humans have shared bread as a staple food in many places around the world since flatbreads were first made 30,000 years ago...

The generosity of sharing bread, the simple pleasure of giving nourishment to another, leads to simple positive outcomes: a smile, and before long the start of a conversation, and with hope, eventually, love.

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Enjoy the music together with artwork and my thoughts:

https://www.100artworks.today/TheBreadWeShare.html

To discover more about Mike visit his site at:

www.mikedesousa.com

The Bread We Share

Composed and performed by Mike de Sousa

Solo Piano

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The sky is full with the gradual, beautiful, and imperceptible change of blue.

Of all the deliciously warm summer days I have experienced, this music speaks of one.

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Enjoy the music together with my thoughts:

https://www.100artworks.today/OneSummerDay.html

To discover more about Mike visit his site at:

www.mikedesousa.com

One Summer Day

Composed and performed by Mike de Sousa

Solo Piano

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When we are lost with love for another, all else disappears.

This music touches upon the emotional force of our leaving a loved one: for a brief period; without knowing when or if one might be with that person again; and when death parts us.

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Enjoy the music With Love Embrace together with accompanying artwork and my thoughts:

https://www.100artworks.today/DoNotLeaveMe.html

To discover more about Mike visit his site at:

www.mikedesousa.com

With Love Embrace

Composed and performed by Mike de Sousa

For Piano, Strings, Woodwind, and Electric Guitar.

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In Darkest Times: Love

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In Time of Darkness With Light is my reflection and expression of how I have found the only remedy to my feelings of darkness...

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Enjoy the music together with artwork and my thoughts:

https://www.100artworks.today/InTimeOfDarknessWithLight.html

To discover more about Mike visit his site at:

www.mikedesousa.com

In Time of Darkness With Light

Do: to act with or without intent.

Not: the denial of an entity, action, or quality.

End: when or where nothing follows.

A poem about conflict and war across four domains:

.life 
.love 
.beauty 
.today

Domain: an area, often controlled, real or imagined.

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Enjoy the music together with a poem and my thoughts:

https://www.donotend.today

To discover more about Mike visit his site at:

www.mikedesousa.com

Do Not End

Two people stand side by side in a meadow full of flowers, with a bright blue sky that rushes towards a city on the horizon.

There, to our right.

A brief pause, and then, excitedly...

Yes

The beauty of the love we give makes the both of us brand new.

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Enjoy the music together with my thoughts and the artwork:

https://www.100artworks.today/TogetherWeMakeNew.html

https://www.encyclopediautopia.world/together-we-make-new

To discover more about Mike visit his site at:

www.mikedesousa.com

Together We Make New

Whether a new born or birthday, a spring morning, the beauty of a crescent moon, or a fresh idea that makes the world a better place, I celebrate your first breath.

Enjoy the music together with the artwork and my thoughts:

https://www.100artworks.today/FirstBreath.html

To discover more about Mike visit his site at:

www.mikedesousa.com

Together We Make New

Mike de Sousa

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