Wednesday, June 5, 2013

The Sight of Sound


Each tune has a unique heart beat.  It's as if you can see the sound. The Sight of Sound.

Reminds me of the monitor that showed contractions when I was in labor 6 times. You could see the muscle constriction rise and fall, peak and dip. And truly a song is something to be birthed, pains, blood and sweat included.

 I like looking at the shape of SoundCloud recordings. The texture of the song is etched like a cardio monitor graph. Every guitar pick or strum; every piano arpeggio, broken chord or 16th note pattern; every vocal pitch and inflection; the beat of a double-bass drum pedal leaves its mark.



https://soundcloud.com/shawelliot/what-we-are-not


Some look like a New York city skyline

Some like the smokey mountains.

Some like the ripples of a slow river.

Some like a Yellowstone fountain

Or the cliff line of the Grand Canyon.

Or the pine sillouette of a Carolina forest.

Yosemite's Halfdome

The roof pitch of my neighborhood homes

This is the sight

The fascinating sight 

Of

Sound.


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