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P – Poetry Week 5 Silence – Void Substance – Voice

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Void and Substance, Substance and Void, the Lotus and Spear, Phallus and Yoni.

Silence – Void

Vend ice soil

C violin seed

Vince soiled

Veiled coins

Dens cielo ~ V

Dive on slice

I loved Since

One Evil Disc

Silencio dev

Civil nosed-e

Elvis coined

Dec – I love sin

C vision leed

Slid eco-vine

Void – Silence .

Substance – Voice

Sit vs Ace Bounce

Stance vice cobu

Be vain scot cues

Sconce but as vine

Stone ov cube scab

Cone vue stab sic

Boast cues vice

Veins cue to cabs

Obtuse case Vince

Because not vics

Because scion TV

Cause cont vibes

C suit bone caves

Voice – Substance

. All these are anagrams that are sandwiched between the title lines

P – Bachelard – Week 7 Notes and Neurons and Me

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“While in the fields

Of this eternal childhood

The poet walks

And doesn’t want to forget anything.”

Jean Follain pg 110 of The Poetics of Reverie

Notes and Neurons and Me

Notes and neurons playing behind sight, beneath sound, after silence, above stars

Playing on tire swings together

In the school yard right where I wanted to be

With my notes and my neurons

When we were all inside on days seeping with sunlight

Notes and neurons sometimes whisked me away

On sun-dropped days

To the school yard and the sky.

We played in the white sands

And the grey sands of stars.

Notes and neurons and I reborn

As butterflies

Swimming though sound

Crystallizing in forests of dendritic souls,

Painting trees into color, in the shade

Of the dappled sun

Waiting for the bell

When the day was done.

And when the bell rang out

We didn’t wait ‘til the last note was cast

To jump from the desks and fly

To Saturn’s balcony

To tease the little asteroids

Who thought themselves moons

As we circled, never caught

By the gravity of substance.

What good times we had ~ playing

behind sight,

beneath sound,

after silence,

above stars

~ notes and neurons and me.

P – Bachelard Week 6 – Pounding postures of obsession

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“The Soul and the Mind do not have the same memory…

O memory the soul renounces

Frightened to conceive you.”

The Poetics of Reverie, pg 104

I was also partly (perhaps mostly) inspired to write this poem by reading Marissa’s lipogram sem pass yesterday, and decided to leave out the letters in the word ‘Calm.’

Artist’s Note: When we are trying to escape fear and the other less pleasant sensations, are we not just fleeing from feelings painting the truth before our eyes?

Pounding postures of obsession: Without C A L M

Fright pushes through the nests

Words wove with the twigs of bright

Spring visions.

They exist wedged into the rigidity of eons.

They writhe – they require progress in twists.

Stroke this identity with your fingers

Soothe the pounding postures of obsession

Never sensing the deep keys to these eyes

Or the devious keys to the birds of sight.

For I drive the ties of now

To drop off, drop down

Surround this body in the stone surf

Press your body into serene eternity

The ten gripping digits shorten ‘now’

To ‘no’

Brush your retort in red behind you

Sweep the beyond to the future

So the first returns to the end.

Speed by this worry, hurry.

Write with the severed pens of desire

To see fresh wings.

We weren’t designed to bend

So we now drown in depths

Of egrets dripping fibers of hope

To destroy the hue of truth

Rub up, ruin the injury.

Wed the poise of terror

– In her iron nest of spines you know

You know your tests.

P – Week 6 log

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February 11th

1 hour – word press
1.5 hour – reading Perloff, Bachelard
1 hour – Writing reveries of hands and fingers
.5 hour – reading Benjamin
1 hour – writing poetry, including poetry for sem pass
1 hour – posting seminar pass and reading others’ posts
.5 hour – Piano
2 hours – movement and poetry with Sophia
2 hours – reading poetry, singing, reflecting and recycling neurons with a group of women

February 12th

1.5 hour – Meeting with Sarah
2 hours – Writing about cycling while recycling neurons in cycles of nature and thoughts and seasons beginning to return to recycling in the cycles of cycling
.5 hour – time logging
.5 hour – Piano play
.5 hour – Reading the poetics of reverie
1.5 hours – lost in writing and speaking reveries

February 13th

1 hour – Piano play
1 hour – Word press work
.5 hour – playing piano
2 hours – Kallari chocolate
1.5 hours – writing and speaking about fragments of reveries in reverence

February 14th… getting sick ) :

.5 hour – reading the Poetics of Reverie
1 hour – journaling, writing poetry
.5 hour – Emailing classmate about recording

February 15th

1 hour – Piano play
1.5 hour – transcribing poetry from journal to computer, editing, reading aloud
.5 hour – journaling

February 16th

.5 hour – Playing Piano
2 hours – Reading Perloff and Dehaene
.5 hour – writing – journaling

February 17th… sick of being sick

1 hour – Playing Piano
3 hours – Reading Piano: from Zither to Grand
1 hour – writing – journaling about dreams recycling neurons, and trying to describe sound in words invoking all the other senses

Totals

This week: 36 hours

Cumulative total: 88 hours (as of the 17th)

P – Bachelard – Ode to the PIANO

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P I A N O

the graceful letter P am I. And you should have No questions as to my gentle character, but Oh!

How I have longed to be more than a breath of air forced from puckered lips;

Loved for my graceful shape, rather than reviled

For the spittle I have speckled on the back of many poor, unsuspecting necks…

I have been misused! Stuck in to words in the most preposterous places!

But in some, chosen with care, I am in perfect, peaceful harmony.

One of my favorite places to be is holding up the edge

Of the sympathetic and patient Piano

~ Especial the Grands – already poised in my pleasing and shapely image.

You might think I’m a bit pompous, and perhaps I am,

But I know my proper place,

And take on an appropriately unpresuming post

When I am brought to someone’s lips or pen tip

In the romance of the word ‘Piano.’

Ah! What joy pulses through my portly body

As I reminisce about her supreme purity,

The adorable plumpness of her, my dear panda-colored piano…

My simple and pedestrian nature, compared to the

Supreme compassion and pull of my tempting partner

Her pedicured pedals made of perforated metal

The pens scratching out compositions to her captivating presence.

Oh! I cannot compare!

I am hypnotized by her receptive and perceptive disposition

I am but the peduncle upon which the pleasant piano can perch…

I am but the peel, from which her precious pearl charisma can appear…

As I wrap up, and prepare to complete this compilation of words

I penitently proffer my apology for all my skipping and flipping about,

I assure you, it wasn’t for pretentious display out of pride

But more precisely, in order to persuade you to

Realize my importance, balanced

With my appropriately peaceable and prudent disposition.

P – Timelog Week 8

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February 25th

.5 hour – word press
3 hour – reading Perloff, Bachelard, The 7th Dragon
1.5 hour – writing poetry, including poetry for sem pass
1 hour – posting seminar pass and reading others’ posts
.5 hour – Piano
.5 hour – journaling
2 hours – reading poetry, singing, reflecting and recycling neurons with a group of women
1.5 hour – getting ready for Zoom Proficiency

February 26th

1 hour – Reading The Seventh Dragon
1 hour – Reading and responding to Sem passes
1.5 hours – Reading The Poetics of Reverie
2 hours – Writing Bachelardian Reverie, and a poem in the voice of the piano
2 hours – Watching Love and Other Anxieties, asking Lyda questions, and connecting with some of the film students on campus

February 27th

1 hour – Finalizing Reverie, posting
1 hour – WordPress upkeep, time logging
1 hour – Who Am I?
.5 hour – re-making schedule
1 hour – working on media stuff for poetry observed
1.5 hours – Holdrege paper
1 hour – working on recording songs
.5 hour – finalizing ‘Sending Sunshine to Stella‘

February 28th

.5 hours – Touching base with Sarah about the upcoming weeks
4.5 hours – Delicate Empiricism
1 hour – Recording piano – First time I’ve done it successfully! WOOP WOOP! I have the takes I need to use for my poetry observed 
1.5 hours – talking with media loan about what equipment to use, getting a quick tutorial on using video editing, collecting media advice
.5 hour – doing my best to help a classmate with wordpress

March 1st

1 hour – Piano play
2 hours – setting up, recording poem, videoing other things
4 hours – Editing Video, posting video on youtube and onto the Ealphabet
4.5 hours – living poetry through breath – Meditation workshop

March 2nd

.5 hour – presentation brainstorm

March 3rd

3 hour –Holdrege paper, presentation, poetry writing and editing

Totals

This week: 49

Cumulative total: 171 hours

Reading List:

The Secret Teachings of Plants
Reading in the Brain – Dehaene
Unoriginal Genius – Perloff
The Poetics of Reverie – Bachelard
The Seventh Dragon – Anita

P – Week 5 Log

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January 31st

1.5 hr – playing the piano, first time ever writing music! I have a couple lines ( :

February 1st

1.5 hours – playing and composing on the piano
3 hours – Tai Ji Workshop… playshop

February 2th

3.5 hours – Tai Jii
1 hour – Talking logistics and the art of composing music and writing it down – with David
.5 hour – Playing the piano

February 3rd

7 hours – Tai Ji
1 hour – Playing the piano

February 4th

1 hour – Playing the piano, working on compositions
1.5 hours – Movement with Sophia
3.5 hours – Reading, free writing about hands and silence, void and voice, completing seminar pass

February 5th

1 hour – Playing the piano, working on compositions
1 hour- Reading Sem passes
1 hour- Responding to Sem passes
1 hour-Writing Self-eval
.5 hour – Reading the poetics of reverie
.5 hour – time logging
.5 hour – Piano
1 hour – watching The Red Violin
1 hour – working on recording equipment

February 6th

1 hour – Meeting with Sarah
.5 hour – Writing Self-eval
.5 hour – time logging
2 hours – Piano play
1 hour- Reading the poetics of reverie
1 hour- lost in writing reveries
1 hour – Creating a Schedule for the next couple weeks

February 7th

1 hour – Piano play
1.5 hours – Human Subjects Review drafting

February 8th

.5 hour – reading the Poetics of Reverie
1 hour – playing piano, singing into the piano
1.5 hours – journaling, writing poetry, sitting with the piano with its hammers and string exposed, seeing the inner workings – like the muscles and sinews of a wild animal
.5 hour – Emailing classmate about recording

February 9th

1 hour – Piano play
1.5 hour – transcribing poetry from journal to computer, editing, reading aloud
.5 hour – journaling

February 10th

1 hour – Playing Piano
2 hours – Reading Perloff and Dehaene
.5 hour – writing – journaling

Totals

This week: 52 hours (as of the 10th)

Cumulative total: 52 hours

Reading List:

The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture
The Secret Teachings of Plants
Reading in the Brain – Dehaene
Unoriginal Genius – Perloff
The Poetics of Reverie – Bachelard

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P is for piano

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Field Study Proposal

My primary learning objective is to learn as much from the piano as possible. I want to sit with pianos, play them, read about music theory, and piano history and mechanics. I want to learn more about how reading music works, and which sounds blend together to create a song, or not. I want to play as many pianos as possible during my field study, and discover within myself more about what performance feels like to me, and more about the ways I like to compose music.

On the finite keys of the piano, I am immersing myself in the infinite ocean of sound.

Learning Contract: Read complete field study proposal

ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes

P – Time log week 7 February 24, 2013 February 18th – Sleeping off sickness 1.5 hour – reading Perloff, Bachelard February 19th 2 hours – Piano play 1 hour – Reading and Responding to Seminar Passes 1.5 hours – Working on several Lipogram ...
P – Week 6 log February 17, 2013 February 11th 1 hour – word press 1.5 hour – reading Perloff, Bachelard 1 hour – Writing reveries of hands and fingers .5 hour – reading Benjamin 1 hour – writing poetry, including poetry for ...
P – Timelog Week 8 February 1, 2013 February 25th .5 hour – word press 3 hour – reading Perloff, Bachelard, The 7th Dragon 1.5 hour – writing poetry, including poetry for sem pass 1 hour – posting seminar pass and reading ...
P – Week 5 Log January 23, 2013 January 31st 1.5 hr – playing the piano, first time ever writing music! I have a couple lines ( : February 1st 1.5 hours – playing and composing on the piano 3 hours – ...

Bachelardian Reverie

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P – Bachelard – Week 7 Notes and Neurons and Me February 22, 2013 “While in the fields Of this eternal childhood The poet walks And doesn’t want to forget anything.” Jean Follain pg 110 of The Poetics of Reverie Notes and Neurons and Me Notes and neurons playing behind ...
P – Bachelard Week 6 – Pounding postures of obsession February 20, 2013 “The Soul and the Mind do not have the same memory… O memory the soul renounces Frightened to conceive you.” The Poetics of Reverie, pg 104 I was also partly (perhaps mostly) inspired to ...
P – Bachelard – Ode to the PIANO February 13, 2013 P I A N O the graceful letter P am I. And you should have No questions as to my gentle character, but Oh! How I have longed to be more than ...

Poetry

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P – Poetry – Week 8 – Who Am I? I just want to melt into you and see what it is to be you. Who Am I? I live in a box and hold so much tension, All I want is some ...
P – Week 8 Poetry “Begin and rebegin to … replunge us into the foam indefinitely dissipating the grains of sand innumerably enumerated by the light when all this i remember and again remember that ...
P – Poetry Week 7 Frag . ments Q: How do you write music, melody, poetry, without Frag ments? Falling from my head to my lap. Clattering from the pockets of my coat patched with rainbows. Writing in snips, strips – fabric cut from the whole it ...
P-Poetry Week 6 Hearts and Hammers Where is that delicate line that exists between creation of an art – music, drawing, writing – and romantic love? Does it exist at all? Hearts and Hammers Set me free Chocolate mahogany. I ...
P – Poetry Week 5 Silence – Void Substance – Voice Void and Substance, Substance and Void, the Lotus and Spear, Phallus and Yoni. Silence – Void Vend ice soil C violin ...

Poetry Observed

Who Am I?
Rukha Poetry Observed:

Term Paper Abstract

Goethean science, and specifically delicate empiricism, is a participatory method in which the observer and the observed are in conversation. Each member of the pair takes turns questioning, listening, and finding new and deeper expression through experience (and as with any conversation, tension and silences happen). For this conversation to take place, a respect for the other partner as an autonomous and whole being is needed. In this paper, I give you glimpses through the window at my experience of immersing myself in my passion for the piano as an instrument, and as an instrument to know myself more fully. I played a piano that lives in my home over the month I delved into study. Embossed on her front is the brand – Stella – that assembled her nearly 100 years ago. Stella became the name for my partner (my piano) in my reveries of exploration – in composition, poetry and introspection.

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