Symbioverse

Date: 22 July 2024
Time: 5pm
Obsidian Tags: #practicenote
Place: Grasmere, Lake District

Visual: A black and white drawing of William Wordsworth in an hourglass, flanked by trees and roots.
Audio: An original composition, “Courage, Grasmere”, featuring piano, orchestra and synthesisers.

Studio Notes:

Today I work my way further through Book I of the Prelude, composing with the following excerpt.

Wisdom and Spirit of the universe!
Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought!
That giv’st to forms and images a breath
And everlasting motion! not in vain,
By day or star-light thus from my first dawn
Of Childhood didst Thou intertwine for me
The passions that build up our human Soul,
Not with the mean and vulgar works of Man,
But with high objects, with enduring things,
With life and nature, purifying thus
The elements of feeling and of thought,
And sanctifying, by such discipline,
Both pain and fear, until we recognize
A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.

Critical Reflections