no more questions - Blog Posts - Yoga Vidya International - Yoga, Meditation and Spirituality2024-03-28T14:05:56Zhttps://my.yoga-vidya.org/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/no+more+questionsThe Music Of Poligraf : Leftoverturned part 1https://my.yoga-vidya.org/profiles/blogs/the-music-of-poligraf-32009-07-08T17:09:27.000Z2009-07-08T17:09:27.000ZChristopher Stewarthttps://my.yoga-vidya.org/members/ChristopherStewart<div><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}9078782255,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" width="444" height="397" /><br /><span style="font-size:x-small;">(Detail from "<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:American_quilt_(DSC04818).jpg">American quilt</a>" )</span></p><div align="center"><embed wmode="opaque" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/stlth/static/production/swf/audio_controller.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="100" flashvars="song_label=converted-poligraf.leftoverturned.pt1_converted.mp3&music_track=http://drop.io/download/public/bstlwu9djleavpwiykr7/8ae789755531fc2f3e3f57ddd87032e5c5462a6a/226e0300-903a-012b-716c-fc1b21f73cd2/080c0660-903f-012b-873a-f2eb8ca45431/v2/content&autoplay=false" allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="internal"></embed></div><p>When I complete a composition there are often unused ideas left. Some of those I find actually pretty good but if I can’t see how to fit them into the piece then there’s not much choice but to discard them. For a while.<br /><br />I rarely delete stuff, I archive. Once in a while I browse the archives and listen to such ideas in no particular order, and sometimes I get to see a way to combine some of them. Then I have the seed of a new composition.</p><p>“Leftoverturned” is a rehash of “Countless Questions,” “Informaëlstrom,” and ideas discarded from the “1000 Radios” writing sessions. The origin of the “leftover” part of the title should be obvious by now, and the “overturned” part refers to the countless questions which have been vanquished, and have now vanished.</p><p style="text-align:center;">I had set out to understand<br />Which thoughts were best to be untwirled<br />Which lines were fit to make the strand<br />Which words were apt to free the world<br /><br />As I advanced onto the quest<br />No issue left me unconcerned<br />No question was left unaddressed<br />No single stone was left unturned<br /><br />Just driven on by a feeling<br />Proverbial mental splinter<br />I never knew needed healing<br />Explored ahead ever faster<br /><br />The hands of time were overruled<br />Future and past blended and burned<br />Nobody could have had me fooled<br />The learned became the unlearned<br /><br />Until one day I encountered<br />Round a corner of my psyche<br />Childhood events that had triggered<br />An invisible injury<br /><br />And there and then I understood<br />My quest had been for disclosure<br />Of the wound that I had withstood<br />That robbed me of my composure<br /></p><p>To be continued...</p><p style="border-width:1px 0px 0px 0px;border-style:solid;border-color:#AAAAAA;font-size:x-small;">The Music Of Poligraf series are reposts of writings and demo audio clips that have been originally published on The Goal Was So Near from November 2008 to April 2009, made available for those who missed the original Clip Of The Day series.<br /><br />If you enjoy what you hear, you are invited to visit the section of our website and support our efforts by pre-ordering our first album entitled Samsara.</p></div>