no.239 | Songwriting with Soft Edges
Earlier this week, the sun reached over our house to touch a neighboring tree. For a moment, one set of branches was set apart from the others before dissolving peacefully into a complex network of other limbs. The color was crazy. Winter conditions occasionally conspire to conjure intense pink, orange, and soft blue hues in the morning skies.
The other night it started to rain as we went to bed and continued softly into the morning. When recorded, the patter of rain sounds like the crackle of fire. French philosophers and Zen thinkers say that all things contain their opposite. Or maybe that is where my head is at in the light of the Los Angeles fires and hoping for rain.
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The other night it started to rain as we went to bed and continued softly into the morning. When recorded, the patter of rain sounds like the crackle of fire. French philosophers and Zen thinkers say that all things contain their opposite. Or maybe that is where my head is at in the light of the Los Angeles fires and hoping for rain.
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Porch Swing Orchestra is an art project begun by Barry Stone that explores the interplay between still images and sound.Since 2018, PSO has collaborated with dozens of musicians, artists, poets, writers, and activists to publish over 200 unique combinations of images and sounds.
Most PSO pieces are made on Stone’s front porch in Austin, Texas, but PSO has traveled to Spiral Jetty in Utah, the border town of Del Rio, Texas, Maine, the San Juan Islands, and performed live in the James Turrell Skyspace, The Color Inside as a part of The University of Texas Landmarks Songs in the Skyspace Program.
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