November 1, 2019
Shhh!
Listen!
It falls and falls
A ceaseless tide of flow
An endless rush and hush in monotone
Or a thousand vocal tones
of discordant consonance
Uncatchable
Immutable
Innumerable
Impossible to grasp
Multitudinous drops gathered in a stream of consciousness soothing co...
October 22, 2019
Calm today
it laps
in little curls
unfurled
Unhurried
little flurries
flourish
in-florescence
A sensual balm
essential calm
It is calm today
October 8, 2019
Hot waves of breath
break over bodies
Bones bake under
robes of flesh
Rose gold and crimson
Bronze and burnished cherry
Rays irradiate
statued curves
on silicon thrones
Basking
abandoned
in coronal
delerium
Paralysis
in praise
of Solis
of photons
Nefertiti’s Aten
Ra
August 28, 2019
Dark gloops of oily black
slide a spatter across the moon
Obscuring the shining sphere
of polished ivory bone
It’s halo a margin smudge
it reaches and seeks its view
struggles to curve and swerve around
to reflect or to rebound
But light is defeated
by its beam’s own directnes...
June 11, 2019
On the string quartets of Elliot Carter.
Primed
and fired
In frenetic determinations
Directions certain and sure
Thrown forward
Thrust toward
the limits of the frame
Defined, by the edge of the rebound
Resounding hard and pure
Orbs of size and density
Scatter across space
Fire, s...
April 25, 2019
A vowel
a quality of tone
Contained and given form
by percussive consonants
A sharpness of tongue
restrains the open
A pursing of lips
Collapses the resonant
As pillars to a temple
that hold the spirit
The consonants capture
and apprehend in meaning
*
Now we divide the word
and sep...
March 15, 2019
On the evening of March 8th, Jenni Roditi and the Improvisers' choir performed in the second of two concerts at Club Inégales in Euston, London. The concert was the culmination of a two day Open University conference on Women In Musical Leadership. Coinciding with Inte...
February 18, 2019
The Third Orchestra
“Beyond the binary” was the first phrase Peter Wiegold used to describe what The Third Orchestra is all about. More than East and West, more than improvisation or composition, “a third way” as he put it, results when these pairs of apparent oppo...
February 15, 2019
What follows is my response to some of the ensembles that emerged in this February's Freedom session at the Vortex Jazz Club.
February
Create - repeat - vary - abandon - create - repeat - vary - abandon - …
Cyclones and Anticyclones - the vortex turns on and against itse...
February 11, 2019
The Freedom Sessions are on the 2nd Monday of every month at the Vortex Jazz club in Dalston, London. They are a meeting of musicians that wish to explore freedom of expression and improvisation with new faces and new voices. Every night and every single ensemble is di...
