Name: STRANGE AMBITIONS by Marjorie Van Halteren
Duration: 8 min 35 s
Description: Jeff Gburek, him in Poland, me in France, met on the internet and this is another of our hand-off pieces. It is part of a series we loosely call LIVES OF THE POETS. This one is about the prickly problem of ambition, strange ones.

i wonder marjorie if love itself is ambitious? or are we just talking about ambition like to build the pyramids? love your voices and the conversation, the atmosphere created was magic

In spring sunlight
the rows of tea bushes
ripple like waves

by Tōge Morita


https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku604-in-spring-sunlight/

wind through the tea bushes (naviarhaiku604)

Underground Walk

Odre

Field recording taken in Naples in 2025  by IB (Spaccanapoli, Quartieri Spagnoli, funicolare)
Poetry by IB

'A muntagna* speaks, at Phlegraean Fields the volcanic caldera quakes.
Solfatara’s energy enlivens the air & breathes centuries.
Vesuvius is so green & magnetic, feeling longing dint’ e ven*.
The gentle tops call to mind the Euganean Hills. 
Quiescent wound & an afterness teeming at the foot.
Moving the city’s buzzing, o mare*.
A flare in the distance as a sun rising tired & disheartened.
Is it you Parthenope? Perpetual drowning, your body washed ashore upside down.
The long cry, the dirge emerging & merging with heat dying in the throat.

A muntagna* parla, ai Campi Flegrei la caldera vulcanica trema.
L’energia della solfatara anima l’aria e respira secoli.
Il Vesuvio è così verde e magnetico, nostalgico sentire dint’ e ven*.
Le cime gentili ricordano i Colli Euganei.
Ferita quiescente e un dopo che brulica alle pendici.
Commovente il pulsare della città, o mare*.
Un bagliore lontano come un sole che sorge stanco e amareggiato.
Sei tu Partenope? Affogare perpetuo, il tuo corpo riportato a riva rovesciato.
Il pianto lungo, la nenia che emerge e si mescola al calore che muore nella gola.'

the mountain | la montagna (the way Vesuvius is called) - in the veins | nelle vene - the sea | il mare

A Muntagna

levetatha

#4267 (94.07% 269 left): Aug. 20, 2025: I shall have written him one (again, William Butler Yeats from May 22, 2025) 

*** NEW CATCHPHRASE FOR PIANO TEN THOUSAND LEAVES ***

" Gentleness, carried on 4,536 leaves of sound "

*** FIRST "PIANO TEN THOUSAND LEAVE" COMPLETE WORK ALBUM SERIES START ***

VOLUME1-2 just released! 

youtube: full video of 50 pieces 2 hours
https://youtu.be/fBmIMLpM10g?si=MQmAdF95M7GCm4Ve

spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/1KDM283kVS8x7fO9q79w2v?si=iIJ4sZidSqWW8ah59Y_a1g

Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/the-complete-works-of-piano-ten-thousand-leaves-vol-1-2/1832629621

iTunes: purchase Album
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amazon Music
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Line Music:
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AWA:
https://s.awa.fm/album/7f18b6a4010dd6f7de96?t=1755003610

all music streaming services:
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VOLUME1-1 just released! 

Now begins a new challenge:
to compile all 4,536 pieces into 91 albums
and deliver them to the future.
Just as "Ten Thousand Leaves ( Manyoushu ) " carried
the hearts of lovers across a thousand years,
we hope these piano pieces will reach
people a thousand years from now.

Volume 1-1 contains the first fifty pieces,
composed in 2014..
fresh and tender,
like the very beginning of a long journey.
Please take a quiet moment in your day
to listen.

youtube: full video of 50 pieces 2 hours
https://youtu.be/YERNF74cvKw?si=6FiU67TOdybggkQk

spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/12vCnNiO4EfBz6eVPGhvOr?si=P3cL7RZSTV-87jeswyI8BA

Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/the-complete-works-of-piano-ten-thousand-leaves-vol-1-1/1831717286

amazon Music
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Line Music:
https://lin.ee/seQ3hEh

AWA：
https://s.awa.fm/album/31adc92bc320678caa11?t=1754641822

all music streaming services:
https://linkco.re/Y9VNVN23



*** NEW SELECTION ALBUM 30th JUST RELEASESD ***

Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this music makes you feel peaceful.. : )

Looking for absolute natural beauty every day for Piano Ten Thousand Leaves. Target number is 4536:
This piece may might have good 1/f fluctuation characteristic although I stopped investigating it each piece.

######## Latest Album: 30th SELECTION ALBUM JUST RELEASED ########

"wind of mysteriousness" - the 30th selection album of piano ten thousand leaves

youtube: FULL VIDEO with 20 full songs in very high quality sounds
https://youtu.be/tkqms1ZjAEg?si=RlWgQZBbe9z523f_

spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/7CiAmnJmm5Wnm3CVfmC234?si=tImTyWj5TT6dUBRhMRXVYg

apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/wind-of-mysteriousness/1817351475

amazon music:
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all music streaming services:
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######## Latest Album: 29th SELECTION ALBUM JUST RELEASED ########
"shin Clair De Lune" - the 29th selection album of piano ten thousand leaves

The best song in the last few years, Shin Clair De Lune, was born, so I named the album after it. The opening song is that song.

youtube: FULL VIDEO with 20 full songs in very high quality sounds
https://youtu.be/_KoD3Urfn38?si=WP2OCvwwVeLYyfnU

Album Download:  iTune
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/shin-clair-de-lune/1796986397

spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/0IesFKVy7eEyvrfn90AW8b?si=_-BDNh2JQ3yUSQyOpSUSFQ

appleMusic
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/shin-clair-de-lune/1796986397

amazonMusic
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Jeff Gburek, him in Poland, me in France, met on the internet and this is another of our hand-off pieces. It is part of a series we loosely call LIVES OF THE POETS. This one is about the prickly problem of ambition, strange ones.

STRANGE AMBITIONS

Sound artist and poet - American, living in the North of France. Member of Muzzix Collective.

STRANGE AMBITIONS

Marjorie Van Halteren

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