Name: horse at breath
Duration: P00H05M51S
Description: Wind, Sand & Stars is an improvised music duo featuring Chapman Stick, loops, and percussion. "horse at breath" was inspired by a poem of the same name.

horse at breath

by Arthur Durkee

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Wind, Sand & Stars is an improvised music duo featuring Chapman Stick, loops, and percussion. "horse at breath" was inspired by a poem of the same name.

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Poem that inspired this (instrumental) music:

horse at breath

The light comes from somewhere,
though the drizzle conceals. Perhaps
a farmhouse at the end of the road.
Pelt silvered with dew, the motionless horse
looms out of the mist,
a rock suddenly noticed, yet always there.
It’s strange that the eye sees first.
He doesn’t move, head bowed low,
but his breath steams in the dusk.
He is dreaming of winter apples,
of the phantom pocketed sugarcube,
the satisfaction of new hay.
There’s a barn somewhere, though he needs it
only from human habit.
His opened heart is a river; the whole field is his mare.
Her muzzle-caress almost visible,
they stand in the drizzle, breathing.

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released March 31, 2018
Wind, Sand & Stars:
Arthur Durkee, Chapman Stick, loops
Eddie Estrin, electronic and acoustic drums

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Arthur Durkee Ann Arbor, Michigan

Arthur Durkee is a composer & songwriter who records & performs on Chapman Stick, bass, analog modular synths, bamboo & wood flutes, keys, frame drums, and voice. He has won awards for composed, notated music as well as for his recordings, & is a published poet, & designer & illustrator. ... more

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