Name: The Harp by Moth Nor Rust
Duration: 2 min 57 s
Description: THE HARP by MOTH NOR RUST sung by Lila Rose

Whisper Wind represents a long collaboration I had with San Francisco artist and composer Frank Garvey that I originally met as a teenage SF State student.  Featuring the wonderful Daniel Berkman on electric guitar.  This is from 2008. The lyrics are Frank's with some minor changes by me.

In all the windswept world my love
No greater sight that you in spring rain
Gentle mist on laughing cheek
No greater call than to laugh in vain
Give one more dream to seek

In all the windswept world my love
No deeper place than caves where hide
The child's eternal tears
No deeper sigh than memory's cry
The graceful dawn of years

In all the windswept world my darlin'
No softer sound than flesh of book
A page of woman viewed
No softer touch than a sideways look
I long have sought from you

In all the windswept world babe
Not mine to know your angel kiss
On midnight's raft of dreams
Not mine to hold the cup of bliss
I drink the dark it seems

I have no one to share the joy
Of victory over dying light
Might just as well put down this toy
The song does offend the night

Whisper Wind

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Why Don't You Do RIght by cold fever

my solo tape Jan 1999

for 8 channels (stereo version)

The light and the heavy

The static and the wet

The oblique and the reflective; 
The tight and the loose

Precisely indecisive


Weight Stranding was inspired by anamorphic art, as the piece explores exaggerated sound qualities and processes of each of the aforementioned pairs of adjectives.   There are essentially two types of anamorphic art; the first is oblique where the distorted image is immovable (static) and the beholder has to change their point of view to see the real image.  The second is catoptric (mirror), where the image is completely distorted and upon placing a mirror at the center the true image is revealed.  The two types of anamorphic art relate to Weight Stranding by utilizing excessive manipulation of stereo imaging in a multichannel context.

Through form and musical gestures the pair of contrasting adjectives describes the qualities and processes of each corresponding section of the piece, but each pair can also be used to describe every section in terms of the sound quality and/or the sound process. This results in a piece that can be heard as monolithic but still remains linear, as traditionally we listen to music from beginning to end.  Each section can live on its own, but all are connected through exaggeration (precision) instead of development (indecisive) of the qualities and processes of the musical material.  The qualities and processes can be heard as a metaphor: as we all carry our own personal Weight our qualities and processes become motionless, and life is Stranding us, engulfed, in the moment both figuratively and literally.

Weight Stranding

Sevin Sins

THE HARP by MOTH NOR RUST sung by Lila Rose

The Harp

MOTH NOR RUST is a solo project of Frank Garvey with occasional guest artists. Garvey is an artist, composer, and filmmaker. He is based in the corn fields of central Illinois near Champaign. 

MOTH NOR RUST is auditioning female singers, skilled instrumentalists and a roadie/driver, and looking for video production persons and actors for a surreal music comedy feature film. Contact Frank at omnicircus@gmail.com 415-335-2784... AFTER you have listened to ROW YOUR BOAT. 

BTW If you sell Garvey a cheap reliable used car or touring van you'll be guaranteed to be reincarnated as higher than a grasshopper. Contact OMNICIRCUS@gmail.com or call Frank at 415-335-2784 thanks!

The Harp

Moth Nor Rust

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