For my sound piece, I wanted it to be based around a poem written to an image or painting.
A painter friend of mine sent me a picture of a painting they did recently. I loved the simplicity of it as well as the blend of warm colours and tones. There are three birds shown flying through the clouds, but the faded tone of them makes them very easy to miss, as their colours fuse with the sky. I was drawn to this imagery. For the writing exercise, I stared at the painting while talking freely into my iphone microphone. After gathering the words, I wrote them down, made some slight adjustments, then based my sound piece on the words I had written and the psychography phrase ‘where the birds sing’.
Below is the poem:
Walk along the river, feeling glad to be there
What a dream
Eyes have seen the same sky many many times
But still I beam
Movies that I’ve seen, remeber the scenes
Middle of the night, dream with open eyes
Breathing without sound, lifted from the ground
Look what I have found
Memories walk away so blindly
Dream of a place, no demons hiding
Once is enough cause there’s no returning
Take us to a place where the birds sing