Rush Hour

I
see
monsters
in the night
human crocodiles
wonderland stories of Alice
sharpen razor-blade teeth shining saliva and blood
I’ll die when the Red King awakes
it’s only a dream
break the glass
even
popes
scream

Blame Alice

Eclogue 1, with poem by Virgil. Taken from Librivox.

Eclogue 1

Music inspired by a poem by British poet Colin Bell.

Furniture auctioned, old letters boxed -
why are they no help to me now?
A father’s photography - tricycle days,
landscapes once playgrounds,
small hands held by ghosts.
Why no help those four-minute songs
- The Beatles’ raw anthems of hope?
Rachmaninov’s G minor tragedy
no longer brings a tear.
The Russian’s melancholy fitted me once
like the thrill of Gauloises cigarettes.
Moving away from familiar rooms,
time to write my own four-minute song,
to sing unaccompanied this time.
© Colin Bell 2/10/2018

Four-Minute Song

Many Things

L'homme Armé

A remix of Old Granny Hare, with the voice of William Ernest. Recording of William Ernest is in the Library of Congress.
Available at: https://timrisher.bandcamp.com/

Music Tim Risher, One piece Tim Risher and Tom DePlonty
Poem by Colin Bell

Old Granny Hare

NOT heat flames up and consumes,	 
Not sea-waves hurry in and out,	 
Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe summer, bears lightly along white down-balls of myriads of seeds,	 
Wafted, sailing gracefully, to drop where they may;	 
Not these—O none of these, more than the flames of me, consuming, burning for his love whom I love!	         5
O none, more than I, hurrying in and out:	 
—Does the tide hurry, seeking something, and never give up? O I the same;	 
O nor down-balls, nor perfumes, nor the high, rain-emitting clouds, are borne through the open air,	 
Any more than my Soul is borne through the open air,	 
Wafted in all directions, O love, for friendship, for you.
- Walt Whitman

Friendship

Indices on the Body. Jean-Luc Nancy, voice.

Indices on the Body

7_L’âme est étendue

Music for wind ensemble: Mille Regretz. From the original by Josquin dePrez. An ambient version.

Mille Regretz

I work in electronic sounds and manipulated acoustic sounds.

I am a member of Paragate, an ambient electronic collaborative group. You can purchase our albums here: http://paragate.bandcamp.com/

Tim Risher

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