Then what would come of it all?

original poetry & music
featuring art by Sabin Boykinov

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Then what would come of it all?

If I could build tones
The shape of a slanted smile
That wander through the city
At twilight until dawn:

Words form their statuettes
In grave geometry,
In pencil glyphs
They awaken such frail bodies.

Such tenuous minarets
Sliced like sashimi by intellect
Served to the old sky elementals
(A delicate appetizer.)

Course after course despite death
Inevitably approaching,
Despite choirs in wait
To eulogize the perished cavorters.

If I could sing rivers
Into towers that reach heaven,
And speak with sultry angels
Poised at thin gates:

Then what
Would come of it all?
Yeah, then what would
come of it all?

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Notes & process

It's been a few days since I uploaded any audible poetry, so I figured I'd experiment a bit today. I wrote the piece using a very basic idea of structuring stanzas: for four lines, short-long-long-short followed by long-short-short-long, etc. I used a beat in the background that I created a couple days ago using recordings of water sloshing in a mason jar by slowing it way down. Then I recorded the recitation of the poem. I thought it would set the feeling if I wrote some vocals for the second half of the piece, so I improvised around five parts that faded in. Then the beginning was feeling really empty so I wrote some different vocal parts for that.
.Now came the more experimental side of things: I mixed & exported the entire piece and then reversed it. Using this reversed version I added the end of the piece to the beginning before the poem recitation came in. I recorded a couple short snippets of beatboxing for after the poem was done and added some echo and panning work. I also used the reversed version at the very end of the very beginning of the piece, and staggered it in two tracks to strobe the sound. There is some reversed speech at the end, it is from this part:

If I could sing rivers
Into towers that reach heaven,
And speak with sultry angels
Poised at thin gates:

Then what
Would come of it all?

Yeah, then what would
come of it all?

This was very fun to create. It concerns the uncertainty of the artist as to where the limits of one's scope lie. And how much can they be expanded? And then what would come of all this: our life, our joy, our creation, our pain? I hope you enjoy it! The art in this post was created by Sabin Boykinov so make sure you check out their page if you like it. I was sad I had to crop the thumbnail image, because the full image is a very beautiful wide landscape. Let me know if you have any questions or comments about this one & have an awesome day!

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Writing & music
By @d-pend
2/17/18
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Art by
Sabin Boykinov

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1 ::: "Concert in heaven" [cropped]
2 ::: "The holy stone"
3 ::: "Concept art"
4 ::: "Between heaven and hell"

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