Another New Project!

I stayed up late last night and wrote a poem, and I only knew half of what it meant until I titled it. I began to write the poem about one of my characters from "The Glass Puppet", and while that is still relevant, the poem doubles as a reflection of a musical device called a lacuna. Lacunae are extended silences often used to build or release tension, to accent a musical point, to allow for reflection. The curious thing about these devices is that, while they are a type of music in themselves, they are strangely able to evoke totally different colors without sounding them.

For example, in my piece Joker's Interlude - I. Spades I use a great deal of lacunae in order to haunt the audience and give a sense of empty space. On the other hand, a lacuna could be placed at the end of a piece to allow the audience to "settle down", the same way a conductor will often allow for a moment of silence after a piece has finished before lowering the baton. At any rate, it is not a term I've heard widely used, but it's a concept I've thought about, and it happened to fit perfectly with the poem I wrote.

The title of the poem is "ad Lacunae", and it basically portrays two sides of the same coin, how silence can be both heavenly and hellish.

hers, the Crystal Liturgy; she, the Silver Lark Flitting Forth like Fragrance from Flowery Fountains. in Circles she Spins, Dashing Light upon Sound Ringing Round like Haloed Heaven Hallowed. she, the Cradled Lunatic; hers the Secret Longing. Praying Puppet from Purgatory, like Pain's Pendulum upon Creation she Swings, Drowning Luster in Silent Gleaming Glass like Silken Seraphs Sunken

So, the new project. I'd like to set this poem for choir, but only have the choir whisper the text. There would be rhythmic complexity and maybe some prescribed inflection in the place of actual notes, but no one would be singing per se. Anyways, I'm intrigued by the idea, and I obviously have a lot on my plate right now. Keep watching out. I might come up with more ideas.

P.S. For anyone clever enough to notice, the poem did make reference to Quatuor pour la fin du temps.

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