a jumble of cliffs sand and chalk slip seaward sunk by a red sun Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1107 Symphony No. 1 by Giovanni Sgambati Today we have music by Giovanni Sgambati to inspire us:
Winter Landscape
mid-winter flickers in a complex monochrome touched by a low sun streaking soft amber highlights in a colourless season Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1106 Symphony No. 11 The Winter by Joachim Raff
A Christmas Distillation
on Christmas morning after dreams of Santa Claus children are yawning only tracks of sleigh and hoof remain in snow on the roof Kim M. Russell, 2016 Animation found on Giphy My response to Carpe Diem Seven Days Before Christmas 2016 #7 Twas The Night Before Christmas In the last episode of our special feature […]
Bach on Christmas Eve
joyful celebration announced with drums and trumpets pure jubilation ascends on wings of voices Christmas Oratorio Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1105 Christmas Oratorio: Cantata #1 BWV 248 – Mov. 1/9 by J.S. Bach It’s Christmas Eve and Chèvrefeuille has chosen a piece of music by J.S. Bach, the complete version […]
Untitled (Last Piece of the Ocean)
each ripple is a piece of jigsaw shapes that sea and saw to infinity and beyond pieced together in a pond swimming pool lake or river warm as blood or cold as a shiver interlocking seahorse rocking seashell washing beach-crashing a wavy motion casting away the last piece of the ocean Kim M. Russell, 2016 […]
Christmas Comet
When the comet hit, the town lit up like a Christmas tree. In the darkest hours of morning, there was no one there to see – just a lonely street sweeper, his eyes like slits, too tired to blink. The whole town was asleep, dreaming of better times, of snowflakes and presents under a tree. […]
A Choir of Birds
peaceful choir of birds a multitude of species singing together Kim M. Russell, 2016 Concert Of Birds by Frans Snijders – image found on fineartamerica.com My response to Carpe Diem Seven Days Before Christmas 2016 #6 meditation Today Chèvrefeuille is reflecting on peace and the pain of the recent terror attack in Berlin. He says that […]
I’ve heard that song before
midnight boulevard tango drifting from the bar locked in an embrace Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1104 Libertango by Sofia Gubaidulina In this episode, the composer is a Russian one and her name is Sofia Gubaidulina and the piece of music is her arrangement of Astor Piazzola’s Libertango for piano and […]
Adorable
They named you Casper, friendly little ghost discovered off the Hawaiian coast, hula dancing and egg laying among the stems of dead sponges manganese-anchored to the muddy ocean floor, which you colonise and clean, digging among minerals. How could you know how valuable and dangerous your high-tech metal farm could be, so remarkably deep under […]
Birth of an Ice Cloud
Ice clouds are born as crystals created from water vapour attracted to individual small atmospheric particles: a microbe or volcanic ash, pehaps. The process known as ice nucleation is the formation of wispy cirrus clouds that hang where temperatures are low and humidity is high in an otherwise clear sky. Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image […]
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