a poetic life. imagining past, present and future through poetic thinking. wondering what that would even mean.

On Sunday, before dinner,  i had only 10 minutes  time to let Monsieur Carl play and record something, and this entirely free Improvisation came out: "Monsieur Carl Is Praying". Hope you enjoy!

Monsieur Carl Is Praying

Piano Sonata in B Minor, Op. 58 No. 3 - III. Largo

Alleluia! O Virga mediatrix, sancta viscera tua mortem superaverunt et venter tuus omnes creaturas illuminavit il pulchro flore de suavissima integritate clausi pudoris tui orto.

Alelluia! O branch and mediatrix, your sacred flesh has conquered death, your womb all creatures illumined in beauty's bloom from that exquisite purity of your enclosed modesty sprung forth.

Alleluia, O  Virgo Mediatrix , Hildegard von Bingen

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Andrei Ioniță, cello
Fritz Reiner, conductor

Respighi: Fountains of Rome

Heading North(Piano Day 2016)

“When you're in a very quiet place, when you're remembering, when you're savoring an image, when you're allowing your mind calmly to leap from one thought to another, that's a poem.” Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem “Kindness” has traveled around the world. She grew up between Ferguson, Missouri, Ramallah, and Jerusalem. She insists that language must be a way out of cycles of animosity. And she’d have us notice “petite discoveries” that embolden us to choose human nourishment over division. “Before you know what kindness really is / you must lose things.”

On Being with Krista Tippett

Naomi Shihab Nye — Your Life Is A Poem

Untitled 28 was a sculpture, video and sound installation created in 28 days by artist Marie-Louise Jones and composer Lucy Claire. It was exhibited in July 2017 at Here East in London as part of Gavin Turk and Anna Maloney’s show, Inside Out. 

The music reflects each sculpture in the installation and explores themes of duality and pairs through atmospheric binaural recordings, beautiful violin melodies and vocal textures. The materials used in the physical installation; wood, stone and metal play a prominent role in the soundtrack and the sounds created when collided together were used to create unusual textures which were weaved into the piece.

Symbiosis

Most Things Are Beautiful (Piano Day 2020)

HAYDN — The Creation (complete) — beginning (Nos. 1–21)

reflect

An old forest in central Sweden with woodpeckers drumming

Woodpeckers in early Spring, Sweden

Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

Naomi Shihab Nye — Your Life Is A Poem

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