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Christopher Stewart's Blog – June 2012 Archive (9)

Source (The Dam part 1)



Source de la Moselle à Bussang » by Didier Misson)



« The Dam » is a 22-minute long suite in 8 movements that uses the metaphor of water flowing from source to ocean to illustrate the process that we affectionately refer to as…

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Added by Christopher Stewart on June 30, 2012 at 10:37am — 2 Comments

In The Taste Of The Day (The Idler part 1)



(detail from one of my old kindergarten paintings)



The Idler was born of a combination of concepts discovered while exploring various domains of knowledge during the second half of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s.

« The idler who does not arise when it is time to arise, who is full of sloth though young and strong, who…
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Added by Christopher Stewart on June 27, 2012 at 7:39am — 2 Comments

Dam (The Dam part 4)



Painting of the Zola dam near Aix-en-Provence in France » by Paul Cézanne)



The fourth movement of « The Dam » is entitled simply « Dam. » In the storyline, this is when the obstacle is recognized and the…

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Added by Christopher Stewart on June 25, 2012 at 11:14am — No Comments

Outgrow



Morpho emerging from its chrysalis » by Thomas Bresson)



That which you can't abide

Embrace as if a friend

Once you two have allied

No thing will make you bend



That which you can't escape

Welcome as a teacher

You will never espouse

More talented…

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Added by Christopher Stewart on June 24, 2012 at 6:03pm — 3 Comments

The Threshold Bookcast : Chapter 18 : Lightning Strikes





Chapter 18 : Lightning Strikes



Richard Ramsay is the star of the eighteenth episode of The Threshold Series, the concluding chapter of « 2206 : Window Onto A New World. »



We find the veteran politician staring outwards from a window of the sky lounge of his private yacht, musing about the weather, while on a visit…

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Added by Christopher Stewart on June 22, 2012 at 3:42pm — No Comments

In The Vortex (revisited - with poetry)



Scylla by William Pye » by mira66)







« In The Vortex » is an energetic instrumental put together while toying with ideas leftover from « Informaëlstrom » and « Leftoverturned. »…

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Added by Christopher Stewart on June 21, 2012 at 8:59am — 2 Comments

Rapids (The Dam part 3)



Stromschnelle » by Gerhard Rießbeck)



In « Rapids, » the third part of « The Dam, » the protagonist/narrator is being carried from a mostly disappointing river straight into an heretofore…

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Added by Christopher Stewart on June 18, 2012 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Asking For A Miracle (revisited - with poetry)



The Miraculous Draft of Fishes » - Artist Unknown - photography by TTaylor)



« Asking For A Miracle » is a short instrumental arranged for acoustic instruments, and written in a time of…

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Added by Christopher Stewart on June 16, 2012 at 2:30pm — 15 Comments

The Threshold Bookcast : Chapter 17 : Where Will You Be





Chapter 17 : Where Will You Be



The central character of this week's instalment of The Threshold Series is Rahu Lüli, the young cenobite from Kõrgus.



At the beginning of the chapter, the teenager is getting ready to leave the monastery, and he ponders the events that have led him to believe that he has found the…

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Added by Christopher Stewart on June 15, 2012 at 2:30pm — 5 Comments

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