A logical musician
a musical logician
prestidigitating intervals like a counterpoint magician
An electrician
laying down the harmonic wiring
blowing your mind with dissonance and leaving your neurons firing
After every bell that I ring
note that I sing
In a booming bass/baritone resonating
in the halls that I walk through
the prosceniums I play
after popping out some Broadway singing along in a room of
musical theater geeks
I've been listening a lot
trying to hone my craft
of course I'm not perfect
sometimes my music's understaffed
but still I got goals – to infinity and beyond
hoping one day to join the music pantheon.
Trying to write about something bigger
not just the nuts and bolts
Encompassing solar systems with my music
Modulating more than Manilow – jumping keys
Adulating the romantics though – more Mahler please.
Embracing German Opera eins zwei drei
Take my cues from R. Wagner getting my Valkyries to fly.
A theoretical music illusionist
choosing this
cruising this
life of limitless listening
this paradigm of cognitive conditioning
practitioning
the division of my reality
into sets of eight
as I allocate, I debate, contemplate, and correlate
the sounds found around me both atonal and harmonic
and immerse my not-so-terse verse in this heady tonic
It's pranic
moving thus from cilia to soul
implementing the true control
music has over me as a whole
reminding that music made me
emphasizing that it still shapes me
proselytizing me to the side of me
that doesn't hesitate to create
doesn't falter in his mandate
to eliminate mass-produced pop
to obviate woman-denigrating hip-hop
to initiate not only great but inspired mystical disc jocks
to be the impetus of a key change in music
causing the exodus of the pre-paid amusement movement
moving from the vacuous vapid teenage idol expenses
to lucid lush pieces that engage the senses.
immerse yourself in all arrangements chorale
****Credit for the first two lines goes to OLIVIA PRATO
