The Magi's Journey
By miraclemiles on May 19, 2024 11:56 pm
Another one featuring 2Sanguine (aka my father) reading poetry.
Here he reads Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot. This poem has been resonating with him lately, as he's contemplating this phase of his own journey. Recorded the reading when we recorded a few other classic poems that I used for our Week 16 track. This is the poem he first thought of and wanted to use when we decided to go down this path. I wasn't feeling it when I put together the Week 16 song. It has some lines I don't like. And it's kind of heavy, religious theme, and neither of those are places I usually go. After discovering how the music wanted to unfold for this weeks song, I thought this poem fit. Maybe hearing it read last month planted a seed that sprouted this week. Religious or not, its "themes of alienation, regret and a feeling of powerlessness in a world that has changed" (Wikipedia) are easy to resonate with sometimes. We are all magi of sorts, on a journey that has both joy and challenges on the path.
The music: I was doing some experimentation playing the tongue drum through a distortion pedal. The results are also kinda heavy. Literal metal music (a metal drum, ha ha). A few of the other sounds: The Glaze Kontakt instrument, Arturia's Prophet soft-synth, various percs and drums from Ableton packs.
Image: I think magi would be accompanied by Ravens on their journeys:
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