Music of the Spheres

I have finally released a new "album" for your pleasure. Music of the Spheres is a lot of my recent work collaborating with poet Colin Bell. His poems using the Fibonacci sequence are little gems and have a lovely musical rhythm buried inside, which I hope I have found here. The music can be found on BandCamp:

Music of the Spheres (2011)

Flat

Earth,

old home,

marble domed

and painted with stars,

easier for simple mortals

than this slowly spinning ball suspended in chaos.

Pythagoras heard heavenly harmony humming in space – the planets’ mystic song.

Divine choreography ruled humanity’s fate

while we worshipped blindly below,

humble and fearful,

ignorant, trusting, -

less

brave.

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I wish everybody would learn to sing

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Cork

Here's a Cork on the Waves: https://paragate.bandcamp.com/track/cork-on-the-waves

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