1. at least oblivion offers peace, an unvoided contract of open sky and blue bliss earned by so many but reached by so few in that space between each step in that space between each breath don’t blink in that space between each heartbeat the moment glows do you see it? 2. oh, the sinister [...]
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My jaw is dropped in disbelief that I never shared this, so let this 2011 track be a 2012 post-holiday gift. Get some Jelly Donut in your Politics. Originally created for artist Marcela Torres.
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Only now realizing that I never linked to this performance of “Music for Strings on A Stage (and an audience in their seats)”. Enjoy!
Do all trees weep, Or do they stand and Suffer us to live beneath Them unawares That there are those whose height And times stretch further than Our own, Whose reach is more eternal And whose loyalty is pure, unfeigned And firm from earth to sky?
I’ve added some electro-acoustic music to my music page, which was previously absent for no good reason. No good reason at all: Organic Gestures: Out of An Echo, Humming, and From the Porch. In fact, although I wrote and recorded these three pieces 5-6 years ago (2005-2006), I’m quite fond of them listening again some [...]
Under the weathered awning, the vagrant’s joints began To ache, hiding from the rain, he scratched his Roughened, feeble knees and cast his sunken eyes Up and down the thoroughfare. Storm subsiding, and Then a biting wind. He had sat there long enough To know a cold snap when he felt it, twitched his Hirsute [...]
I’m beginning to acquire a practical understanding of just how futile artwork is in a vacuum. I believed it before. I knew it in my mind. But I now feel it sinking into my gut. Actually experiencing it is something else entirely. Although I would likely dance on a desert island, and probably clang coconuts [...]
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Mahogany gallant Kinkade treasures giddy frappes and cappuccino cluttered corners contribute to it. That’s what I say Am I in this triptych? Take me outside, tuckered up and running night’s pitch and stoking stars brighten shades. Witness this, the best of all.
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A video of Cotton Wood Lining, a new work commissioned by somebodies dance theater and performed on September 11th, 2010, at the around/about Contemporary Dance Festival, is now available. Check it out on it’s own page, or view below. Cotton Wood Lining from Sam L. Richards on Vimeo.
Yesterday fall struck In the winds I can smell the trees turn to rainbows
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