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#Music and the shadow people
pillowmoney · 4 months
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For Black History Month, here's a recording of jazz legend William Parker reading an excerpt from his 1995 self-published story/tone poem, Music and the Shadow People, with backing music produced by Andrew O'Connor. Transcription below the cut – the book is long out of print and copies are extremely rare, so paragraph/line breaks (and any mistakes!) are mine.
Full play adaptation with band here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_vpXgd85A4
Chapter 3: Intuitive Tomorrow
One tent of a three-ring circus remains standing
All the horses have run away
The ringmasters were strangled by their own hands
The countryside smells of a battle
That has taken place long before
A brown, light-footed charger
Leads the weary soldiers
Into the maple forest
They wear dirty grey uniforms
Trudging along like sharks
They smell blood
Their faces are masked with red anger
Still other faces overflow with despair
The trees seem to get stronger
You can almost feel yourself
Going up to the top of one
To kiss God on the forehead
This is the setting outside
Inside
This is a living spirit world
The place where babies live
Before they are born
It is the place they return to
After life
The language spoken here
Is a cosmic sound language
A word is a sound
A sound is a vision
The centre of the universe is the periphery
Sometimes for a half a second
We see a blur that contains all the stories
If we look inside while producing
Sound vibrations
We see the horizon
There are thousands upon thousands of orchestras
in the tone world
There is an orchestra of raindrops
And one made of snowflakes
There is an orchestra made of all kinds of light
There are tunnels that lead to the colour world
And the trance world
With continuous sound
And continuous silence
Existing at the same time
There is an orchestra of dolphins and whales
There really are no names
No categories
It is about the one big shape
And the trillion little shapes
That make up the shapeless
timeless space
The naked eye cannot see
The melody or harmony that is present
It constantly speaks about
The intuitive tomorrow
There is a huge silver disc in the sky
It is a message from the father
of sound
It is about vibration
The sky is a burnt blue wall
A curtain of water erupts
To the left of the disc is a fire-red
Planet, a rope ladder
Dangles from the moon
Stars fill the galaxy
A bridge of shells holds
Three hundred prophets
Riding on goats
They dismount and walk towards the sun
Their footprints turn into clouds
Someone is knocking on the yellow birth-door
The doorman who is both male
And female opens the door
A bluish-purple flame
Spirals and laces
The embryo still in the womb
Now droplets of stone
Pour from the opening
At the top of the world
The story is in the strong music
The thunder-drummers produce
I am a wholewheat dumpling
Sauteed in blood
The angel says it is time to go
Blue-white flames line the birth passage
I see no colour
I feel nothing
Grains of sand turn into ants
Why do I leave my eternity
To be with you?
A bolt of lightning
Stretches across the vast darkness
The sun resounds
Like a huge gong
The wind whistles through the holes
In the sky
Trees are strung with sinew
The earth is a soundbox
Of six million birds
Singing six million tones
Simultaneously
Spirit tones float in lava
Ice castles melt
Forming huge lakes
The seeds of oceans
Water tones begin to sing
The thunder-drummers take
Two steps forward
And spin
The earth opens up
And swallows the sound
Tear tones slide down
The bamboo stick
Silver peacocks
Place their hands
On the unwashed altars
In the rice fields
Bell tones of sound
The house of the creator is the body
The altar is the heart
It is also the creator's drum
The rhythm is a lifeforce
The vibration of temples
The green mountain
The worm digging in soil
Children collapse in the bushes
They use leaves as pillows
The pillows turn into light
Then to eternal happiness
Then to stars
Oak and maple harps are plucked
The long breath is held
The tail of the dragon is caught
In the lid of the upper lip
Stone fingers flap
Like skin
Peeled
And placed over gourds
Branches tremble from the corner of the eye
Shadows sparkle
In the golden wetness of visual
touchable dream zones
Every lie that has been told
Since creation
Is written in huge letters
Over the black-purple horizon
The drone begins
Thick rosin dust
Over a field of dandelions
Singular tones bounce
Over low ocean waves
The same song
God is the master of masters
The composer of life
And all that elevates
The instrument is all creation
The creator
Is the improvisor and the player
The spirit that causes all things to dance
Human beings create
Only through the grace
Of the creator
Sound exists
As a force of nature
That leads us
Back to the creator
The intuitive tomorrow
Does not last
It is not about that
It is about the signs that inform
It is about the senses that do not touch
It is about unearthly realities
That science does not understand
Nor chooses to accept
It is about the death of death
And the life of life
The taking away of fear
It is about filling souls with compassion
To sweep one's entire being
With hope
And belief in truth
Leaving this vessel
When we meditate
On peace
Finding the lost children
Who seek passage
On this ship, the ark,
The psalm, the last sunset
One day
The sun will be late setting
This will be the sign
Please
Have all pains eased
All hurts soothed
Wrapped in love
In the peace
Of acceptance of salvation
Every sound must be filled
With truth and love for all
Creation, the intuitive tomorrow
May last a lifetime
What shall we do
when we cannot hear the silence?
The intuitive tomorrow will solve the mystery
It is today
It is yesterday
The intuitive tomorrow
Is another name for the music
It is the life
It is the dance
It is the prancing pony
Soon to be stallion
It is the doe we saw that morning
On the way to Vermont
It is the shirt off my back
Onto yours
It is the birthday party
The river
Mixing with the ocean
The intuitive tomorrow
Is the kind nurse
Who gave you that sip of water
After your operation
Within the intuitive tomorrow
The deaf hear
The crippled walk
The pain of famine vanishes
There is no war, guns or missiles
The sky is deeply concerned
And buckles and caves in
Due to the weight of these elements
It's as if the seat is the volcano
When its crust cools
It will be the new landscape
The playground for the little ones
The point tone
Split and stretched across time
The nail of the finger of the valley
Is one million times
The size of one million
Galaxies.
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luck-of-the-drawings · 4 months
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my TWO FAVORITE THINGS IN THE WORLD, VAMPIRES N COWBOYS... deacon keller is SUCH a fun character, hes charming and funny but ALSO formidable and STRONG when he feels he needsta be. i hope him and arthur can get a chance to talk more and be better friends. l ike really good friend s. . like. like really good f. hangon i gotta go i think i hauve rabies.
#jrwi fanart#jrwi show#jrwi suckening#jrwi suckening spoilers#deacon keller#arthur bennett#OOUGUGHHAAOGUguguhh i feel so cringe whenever i ship two characters. like theyre not even REAL#why cant i be more 'hyperfixated' on getting bitched or something. CHRIST. anwyay i want em to hold hands or smth. yknow. freak stuff.#SO DEACON KELLER!! HE OVERHEARD ARTHUR TALKIN ABT THIS PLACE GETTING ATTACKED.. WE SAW HIM APPROACHING#AND THEN THE WHOLE FEAST PORTION OF THE PARTY HAPPENED N HE GOT STUCK#BUT HE KNEEEWW HE OVERHEARD ARTHUR SOMEHOW!! i just think thats neat. hes dedicated to protecting his people. hes respectable!!#GOD he doesnt even have that much screen time but i LOVE HIMMM n his silly lil shadow steed named Sunshine.. like cmon.... ugh.....#hes sweet n hes funny and he CAARES about the things hes in charge of on some levels. he certainly does his best to look after his own.#god idk what else to write here other than how much hes been on my MMMIND lately. the doctors are still running diagnostiscs#i just think hes so neat... also i think its funny that hes afraid o snakes. OH YKNOW lemme just talk abt my damn art. first o all this too#SSSOOO LONG. WEEKS EVEN.IVE BEEN WORKIN ON IT SINCE EP 5 WAS ON PATREON.it was sposed to be justa buncha doodles but then it Evolved#idk man...cowboys are just so cool...especially w VAMP POWERS..fastest shot in the west for a REASON BABY...n with the red smoke#n the glowing eyes..CMOn thats so cool i hadta get my visions into reality. the eyes were inspired by the music video for RATTLESNAKE (kglw#that where the IM THE SERPENT lines come from.lyrics from tha song.ooh yeah i love kglw so much...i also have other hidden messages here#i like to hide things...ALSO ALSO. I HAD SO MUCH TROUBLE W SO MUCH O THIS. the two bits with arthur n deacon biting eachother. AGONY#POSES ARE SO HHARRDDD SAME WITH THAT doodle o arthur slammin deacons head into the ground. WEEKS to get that pose RIGHT. I BLED SO MUCH#OHH AND GUNS???COWBOYHATS?? HIS GAY LIL JACKET? W THE DANGLIES?? AGOONYYY IT TOOK SO LONG TO PERFECT IT..especialy guns. OUUUHH#i also dont draw mustaches enough... which sucks bc im weak for a good mustache... BUT i think im doing pretty well on that.#it was hard but yknow what!! i think i did good! i rly like how this all turned out!! EXCEPT FOR THA FUCKIN RIBBON BOW THING I FORGOT TODRA#IN THE TOP RIGHT... THAT I JSUT NOTICED...its fine its fine i dont care that much. this is good enough to FEAST upon so im content n happy.#anyway i gotta leave ina few hours to start TRAINING for my NEW JOB!! CHEER FOR ME!! TRUCK IS A BLACKJACK DEALER NOW!! IEAAAHHH BABYYYY!!!!#thanku for reading my weird lil scrolls i bury beneath my posts. if u leave tags i WILL absorb them. and feel joy.
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irrealisms · 1 year
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tagged by @arisingonmorningsinnocent
Rules: shuffle your On Repeat playlist and post the first 10 tracks, then tag 10 people
It's All Futile! It's All Pointless! by Lovejoy
In the Shadow of the Western Hills by the Mountain Goats
Nobody by the Crane Wives
Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youths
Never Quite Free by the Mountain Goats
A Burning Hill by Mitski
Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod by the Mountain Goats
Be Calm by Fun.
Autoclave by the Mountain Goats
His Theme by Toby Fox
tagging @spiritunwilling @circuit77 @risingape @existentialterror @scientificalstories @erstwhilesparrow @adhdo5 @roundearthsociety @lepertamar @wolffyluna and anyone who sees this and wants to-- feel free to say i tagged you ^_^ and on the flip side if you were tagged and don't want to do it feel free to not!
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aroanthy · 5 months
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the symbolism of revolutionary girl utena is key to understanding what it’s even trying to say narratively and thematically. if you remove the symbolism, if you remove the ways in which the narrative obfuscates itself and abstracts what it’s saying, then what it is saying changes dramatically. if rgu was like ‘yeah lol and did you guys know that incest is bad’ or ‘maybe gay people are good’ or ‘hey did you know that csa victims are Real and Alive and Have Interiority’— like those are all paraphrases of things that it says, but the way that it chooses to say them is so powerful and conveys so much nuance and complexity that those simplistic statements don’t. it provides an incredibly meaningful commentary on the way that systemic violence and abuse are covered up, codified, made part of our culture that supposedly resents those things. it’s examination of incest, the incest taboo and how that impacts incest victims— it’s all so incredibly considered and layered because the show chooses to convey what it’s saying through symbolism, through its metatheatrical framing, through allegory. it retains the reality of these issues; it shows them to us only when we’ve already bought into the system’s lies to make a point about how that operates, how that works to make us all complicit in that violence. nanami. nanami.
dont even get me started on how the movie uses its symbolism to demonstrate how the abuse anthy and touga experienced is simultaneously built into the world and culture they exist in, and always obfuscated and abstracted for the sake of their abusers (also specifically the way that it engenders shame and prevents people from seeking help. rgu is so damn good at understanding how and why people don’t ‘do what they should’ in abusive situations: the systems in place don’t fucking work bc they are an extension of the system built upon that abuse). anthy is the model in all the paintings, the symbol of so many undesirable things, the canvas on which they are painted. her likeness is used as an approximation for all of these awful things, many of which are a part of her in a way, but such that her interiority, her feelings, are never regarded, never seen, never understood. she’s the model. akio is never explicitly named as her painter.
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carlyraejepsans · 3 months
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what is this intrafandom horrible taste you speak of. please, i must know the gossip
a certain videoludic transformative work of chromatic inclinations really gets on my nerves.
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averlym · 9 months
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the one who pulls the strings (click for better resolution!)
from adamandi by @melliotwrites,, consider this my pitch to get you all to watch it
#beatrix valeria campbell#adamandi#this image was originally too big to save. but like im so tempted to print out the og as a poster to hide somewhere in my bedroom#anyway!!!! adamandi. im so obsessed. i have particular soft spots for vincent and bea they are my comfort characters i love when they appea#especially together. ''keep your deflections rehearsed''... aaah#shoutout to me being very normal (/sarc) about this in studio and showing it to my friends who were very indulgent with me#and also vastly entertained that i have yet again found another musical to obsess over!! shoutout also to my friend who saw bea and instant#instantly did The Face where its like. disbelieving smile. and then went#'' idk if i love her or if i want to be her''#they're so gender. also on another note the whole asian roots things called out to me with lin!! like#the cutting fruit part in the ambrose entry had me screaming internally. oh my god cut fruit. oh my god ambrose Not Getting It.#anyway vincent's so real for all the biology references. science my beloved (<- i no longer takes bio and thus remember it fondly)#also the way they all only care about specific people-ish. i identify with that selfishness tbh. like it's good all my loved ones are stabl#bc vincent's ''this was all a gift for you''? in a darker universe probably me fr#anyways!!! stunning music and lyrics and bg and plot and costumes and acting!!! i cannot give a more glowing review akjdfhdsjk#so much of this lives rent free in my head. i have snippets of the songs memorised.#also shoutout to the shadows on the official adamandi poster.. the stained glass shadows for quincy and blood for vincent.. insane#now tag ramble about this one! highlights include i have been wanting to paint this for a Week and today i gave myself a Rest Day and got i#like this pose. went insane over it. help. the lighting. the pose. the strings#bea is such. lowkey manipulative girlboss i have so many thoughts.#trying to Not have spoilers here but! i like how the tips of the white strings in this little fanart of mine are a slight bit tinted :33#also i moved the layout of the eye-boards a bit and added in strings of them hanging away. i realise in the original they are on stands.#but call this artistic liberties!! speaking of. for the textures it's photoshop noise filter + old paper + literally to my delight#one of the google images for. and i quote. ''old newspaper 1930 usa student'' that i then blurred out. and it looked so good!!!#journalist bea so beloved. i think i messed up the gloves a bit though :OO but nothing's perfect.#discovered this show on a 2am tumblr scroll and watched it thrice the next day as i did studio#the core message of. ''word to the wise- there's a whole world outside'' i am grasping so tight this exam season
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todayisafridaynight · 6 months
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miss-mossball · 20 days
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Bunny and the Transient Shadows(tm)
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northoco · 2 months
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sonadow songs
a thing i’ve been thinking about recently is sonic songs that specifically resemble sonadow
now bare with me because i swear i have a point
the songs i think fit most are both adventure 2 songs, one of which is obvious and the other not at all as it’s a pretty underrated song!!
the obvious one is live and learn! the lyrics just scream sonic, and specifically him being the pov singing to shadow
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sonic beats shadow around twice in the game, same for shadow beating sonic depending on if you play hero story or dark story — that second line to me is practically just sonic saying that. life is complicated, ‘tangling you up inside’. one moment the guys on the floor and the next hes towering above him, it goes both ways. right after that we have:
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knowing roughly about the pain he’s dealt with and all he’s paid for, even if undeserved. however by following that grief and negative expectation from others he’s practically pulling himself further down, ‘putting him right back where he came’
then it hits with the live and learn which is obviously just the. you know. final kick. however the bridge sort of just beats you when you’re down because johnny what the fuck is this
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this is just painful (in a sweet way). to me it’s sonic giving shadow that final hope. the entire rest of the song is pretty aggressive, kind of just yelling to live and learn and get over things but the bridge is such a gentle reminder of why he should do it in the first place. ‘hold on to what if’ aka the what if that shadow will move on from the ark and learn to live. that place sonic is referring to the line before is peace and home.
and then live and learn and shadow fucking dies lmao
but i mentioned two songs!! and that’s because the other song is shadows perspective which is somehow more miserable
this song is none other than supporting me for the biolizard, one of my probably top five sonic songs if not number one. i love it so much it’s so perfect
this song is pretty over looked. you hear it in the biolizard fight but you don’t really listen to the vocals. hell when i first played i didn’t even hear the vocals because i was too busy trying not to fall down the streams and slam my laptop in
the song, unlike live and learn, starts out gentle and soft, and only after the guitar picks up does the first line drop:
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after all, it’s what shadow assumes is the final fight. it’s what he thinks is the last thing he needs to do to destroy the threat, hence the desperation.
the verse eventually comes, which could not start harder somehow
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now, important. this song could be viewed as a song about maria and his final words to her before he moves on (which you’ll understand when i bring up the next lyrics) and that’s a perfectly good interpretation of it, and probably the intended one.
HOWEVER, it can still be interpreted as a song to sonic, and there will be more on that soon.
anyway, these lyrics are just so good and well sung. the line “i believe in my future, farewell to the shadow” is him accepting the idea of moving on once defeating the biolizard, and believing in what’s next to come via abandoning his past with the destruction of the ark.
‘it was my place to live, but now i need your hand’ the sibling/maria interpretation would be the fact maria died in what shadow thought was his place, and now he needs her support in?? i can’t exactly figure out the last line and it’s tie to maria— WHICH IS WHERE THE JOINT SONADOW INTERPRETATION COMES IN! it was his place to live, it’s his realisation and moving on of his grudges and self + outward hatred. he needs sonics help, and the thing that makes this more fucking painful is the fact it’s a FORESHADOWING OF THE SUPER TRANSFORMATION WHERE THEY REACH THEIR HANDS OUT TO THE SKY TOGETHER.
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SHADOW TAKES HIS HAND METAPHORICALLY AT THE FIRST BIOLIZARD FIGHT AND LITERALLY AT THE SUPER TRANSFORMATION.
‘lead me out with your light’ and the line below it to me is what slowly underlines the tie to sonic. he spoke to amy shortly before this fight, and then went straight to sonic, being led out by his guidance to help save the world, the light that he was trying to destroy.
and then the fucking HOLY SHIT THIS PART
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this is a straight follow up from the last line before. everything currently IS like an illusion to him, so much is changing and he can barely comprehend its reality.
‘i’ll be losing you before long’ WHICH PLAYS RIGHT AFTER THE LIVE AND LEARN RIFF???? it’s a strong foreshadowing of his death, and the person he’ll be losing is sonic!!! before long!!! it can also be mixed with maria. he’s losing both him and maria by destroying his home and what’s remnant of its present.
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the last lines here are what really made me believe this was more towards sonic lmao. ‘i know you are supporting me’ as sonic is currently doing his part in the fight whilst shadow is facing the biolizard. he knows he’s supporting his decision to join his side, and to realise what the right path is.
anyway that’s about it uh shadria and other weirdos dni also go listen to supporting me
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zukkaoru · 2 years
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i love sleep. would love to be able to get some one day.
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thepigeonking25 · 7 months
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BRO I LOVE RAZIA’S SHADOW!!!! ITS SUCH A GOOD MUSICAL AND PEOPLE NEED TO LISTEN TO IT MORE!!!! LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN POPULAR EMO BANDS ARE IN THIS SHIT!!!🤩🤩🤩🤩
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Round 1 poll 14
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Memories summary : The 2k12 turtles accidentally entered the rise dimension when they were 12. After a while of taking care of them, they had to leave after their gateway begins to close off. But nine years later, after the events of both series, a freak accident brings them back. With the groups quickly getting reattached, they help each other with new enemies, past trauma, and getting better with their feelings.
Guess I've been... Disarmed summary : Joke Summary: Future Rise Leo fucking dies and somehow wakes up in another dimension and promptly adopts all the turtles emotionally since none of them are legal. Actual Summary: Future Rise Leo gets sent to the beginning of 2012 Tmnt and gets immediately noticed by the 2012 turtles, hi-jinx ensue as Rise Leo tries to figure out emotions and all that shit.
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sh3sthnderstorms · 2 years
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ALEXXX😩😩
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enjoydotnet · 6 months
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everybody should rb with ur emotional support album that you wholeheartedly believe that you like in a way nobody else can and listen to more than anybody else on the planet
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nandermoenthusiast · 9 months
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i do think it is a crime that i dont have any video editing skills because sometimes i hear a song and i see an amv that could make us cry so clearly in my minds eye…
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riverabsence · 7 days
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i need more arctic monkeys ( and tlsp!) song recommendations!!!! i really like how they did secret door, joining the dots, and the afternoons hat but it seems like they don’t have a lot of songs with that vibe to it,, pleaseee leave recommendations 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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