Thursday 23rd May 2024

Music of the Spheres single & video release

The second of four tracks from the upcoming Sounding Seams EP release, I wrote the poem, Music of the Spheres in 2014 while living alone, deep in a mountain valley in County Wicklow, where I spent many, many nights gazing at the night sky in the kind of inky blackness that only exists in the mountains.
The music is based on a sketch I'd made for chimes & voice in 2018 for the Sounding seams I performance. I composed the final song in 2022 while preparing material for the Clang Sayne Sounding Seams recording.
The video was made by Simon Arazi in 2024.

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Music of the Spheres

Hardly the song of sirens,
this heaving of the heavens.

What, with all that spinning and burning,
and the ice-cold threat of meteor collision ever looming.

Rather I'd wager,
A Grand Celestial Din.

And I imagine
the low, ominous rumble
of planets slowly turning,

occasional explosions,
dark matter hotly fizzing,

and the incandescent hissing
of a brand new sun.