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Sounds & Silences

Sounds & Silences

Eldridge, Brenda

Paperback

General MusicGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1761096249
ISBN13: 9781761096242
Publisher: Ginninderra Press
Published: Oct 8 2023
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

Vivid memories prompted by hearing a few stray notes playing sent me wandering through my very rich life to renew my love of particular pieces of music and songs. When I started writing poems, I recognised that, for me, music is like ekphrastic poetry. A composer responds to something and in turn there is my response to the composer. From my own experiences, I was reminded how my mental image or emotional response to a piece of music was not necessarily what the composer had in mind. Being more aware of the silences throughout a piece of music or when it comes to an end, I started to write about silence. In doing that, I realised that in our ordinary lives it doesn't exist. What is silence? It appears to be a momentary pause between one sound and the next - a heartbeat. Even if everything else can be blocked out, we can still feel or hear our own heart beating. Having got that far, I explored places where there was 'silence' and discovered what I could really hear.

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