Dolor by Abraham Taylor
The musical concept is background music for challenging tasks.
"This is the main thing. This is what I care about, it is the person. This is the living vessel: person. This is what matters. This is our universe. This is the task, the joy and dolor: to be born as person, to live and love as person, to dwell in the World as in a Person. The living spirit, the moving form, the living word, life-death, art-life, 'corpus,' body, being, all, persons. Truly life is absent in the moment when person is eliminated. This is the urgency of my speech -- for this occasion and all human occasions -- to bring man into man's consciousness. It is the presence of person that compels my energy. For life -- I am sure of this -- is not transforming energy, but transforming person. Energy is the means. Being is not 'what' but 'whom.' It is Presence in whom and before whom we show ourselves. Let us ride our lives like natural beasts, like tempests, like the bounce of a ball or the slightest ambiguous hovering of ash, the drift of scent: let us stick to those currents that can carry us, membering them with our souls. Our world personifies us, we know ourselves by it. Let us then speak to each other in our most intimate concern. I have been encouraged to speak so in this book."
--- M.C. Richards "Centering: In Pottery, Poetry, and the Person"
Everything is improvised except composition 101, which is an improvisation over a set idea. All of it is one take, one track, no editing of any kind other than cutting improvisations short.
Tracklist
| 1. | ongoing | 6:28 |
| 2. | problem | 7:30 |
| 3. | smooth problem | 7:24 |
| 4. | mindless repetition | 5:43 |
| 5. | mirage | 3:22 |
| 6. | composition 101 | 4:20 |
| 7. | weightless | 5:37 |
| 8. | stroll | 2:59 |
| 9. | strife | 6:31 |
| 10. | change | 4:10 |
Credits
License
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.Tags
grew up on a wooded farm with a creek, which our dogs and i explored. i play a Yamaha S-90 keyboard.