Every Sunday I put together a mix loosely based around a theme, as I think that music and poetry go so well together and since today I went for a stroll along the seafront to blow the cobwebs away, todays theme is Walking

My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has inner light, even from a distance-

and charges us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave…
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926)

Rain so dark I

can’t get through—

train going by

in a hurry. The voice

said walk or die, I

walked,—the train

and the voice all

blurry. I walked with

my bones and my heart

of chalk, not even

a splintered notion:

days of thought, nights

of worry,—lonesome

train in a hurry.

Walking Blues

Jane Mead

I will have been walking away:

no matter what direction I intended,

at that moment, I will have been walking

Away into the direction that you now say

I have always intended, no matter what my

intention was then, I will have been

Walking away, though it will not be clear

what it was that I was leaving or

even why, it seems that you will say

That always, I was walking away,

intending a direction that was not towards

you, but moving away with every step,

Or, even when I pretended to be walking

towards you, only making the place

for my feet to go backwards,

Away, where I will have been walking,

always away: intention and direction

unknown, but knowing you will always

say I will have been walking away.

A Kind of Villanelle

Joyce Sutphen

Poems courtesy of Poetry Foundation

Discovery, Recommends, Season

TODAYS DISCOVERY – SOUND AWAKENER AND GALLERY SIX

May 7, 2015 Feminatronic

Here is another discovery for the Africa and Asian Electronics Season.

SOUND AWAKENER

GALLERY SIX

Discovers, Reblog

Leslie Deere – Live at Fractal Meat Cuts Launch

May 6, 2015 Feminatronic

Discovered this little gem on Fractal Meat with a Spongy Bone : )

Fractal Meat

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News

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DELIAH DERBYSHIRE

May 5, 2015 Feminatronic

Here are a couple of my favourites

Discovery, Season

TODAYS’ DISCOVERY – IKUE MORI – BHIMA SWARGA

May 4, 2015 Feminatronic

I recommend you sit down, listen and watch this wonderful video.

IKUE MORI

Articles, Season

AN EAR SPLITTING CRY – SOUNDING OUT ARTICLE

April 28, 2015 Feminatronic

Whilst looking around the web for interesting articles that may fit in with the season on African and Asian Electronic artists, I found this about ululation or Zaghareet, which I found very interesting and nothing to do with electronic music : D

http://soundstudiesblog.com/2013/05/13/zaghareet/

Sunday Mix

FEMINATRONIC SUNDAY MIX – THE SEA

April 19, 2015 Feminatronic

It’s American Poetry Month and this week the subject is the Sea

Give praise with the skirling of seagulls
And the rattle and flap of sails
And gongs of buoys rocked by the sea-swell
Out in the shipping-lanes beyond the harbor.
Give praise with the humpback whales,
Huge in the ocean they sing to one another.

From ‘A list of Praises’ – Anne Porter (2006)

Why do I see these empty boats, sailing on airy seas?
One haunted me the whole night long, swaying with every breeze,
Returning always near the eaves, or by the skylight glass:
There it will wait me many weeks, and then, at last, will pass.
Each soul is haunted by a ship in which that soul might ride
And climb the glorious mysteries of Heaven’s silent tide
In voyages that change the very metes and bounds of Fate —
O empty boats, we all refuse, that by our windows wait!

Vachel Lindsay (1879 – 1931)