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Getting serious, I chose to read Verse 52 from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself". This piece of poetry is, traditionally, spoken at funerals and memorials because of its poetic contents (see lyrics). For the first time, I used a sound sample from Freesound .org, which has since become an incredible resource for sounds otherwise difficult to find. Listen closely to the poem and the sounds, which are suggested in the lyrics.

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

The last scud of day holds back for me,
It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow’d wilds,
It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood.

Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop somewhere waiting for you.

Credits:
Backyard sounds; Adventure Science Museum; Song of Myself; Verse 52; Walt Whitman; YouTube

Artwork and liner notes ©2020 Sam Bissell

From Conversations With Ganymede, released January 1, 2020.

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Inspired by experimental music of the 1930s & 1940s, I am a composer who gets your juices flowing: I splice, chop, flip, stretch, slow down, and speed up music in "Soundtracks for Unknown Films and Shorts". Here, you may find a melange of mellow ambience through a space-wild, spine-tingling galactic fantasy. ... more

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