A Tomita-ish take on Charles Ives' wonderful composition.

and static takes love's body, wipes it clean and gray. Waves of white sound break along a beach that isn't there. And the tape ends. Parker lies in darkness, recalling the thousand fragments of the hologram rose. A hologram has this quality…

Remains lost, while creatures swim and live among the ruins

A ritual.

Dance music without drums

Read the Stanislaw Lem novel

Thank you, Harlan Ellison.

On a clear day you can see everything.

Read the Stanislaw Lem novel

A signal propagating outwards into infinity, slowly fading away.

The whole piece was 24 minutes long. It's a whole bunch of short poems that I wrote back in 1976, read one after the other, under which I added ambient sounds, playing some harmonica and banjo and using samples and effects of various types, synths…

Another song for the RPM 2009 Challenge. This is sort of an interlude that reminds me of Penguin Cafe Orchestra but with a sort of industrial edge. Vocoder is featured.