July 2012 Blog Posts (21)

(« 
Surface Tension » by darkmatter)






In « Surface, » the sixth chapter of « The Dam, » the protagonist/narrator is gradually returning to activity after having transformed into who they feel…

It happened again

It happened again;

I was driving home from the store and had just turned the corner onto our dead end road. The first house is a well maintained little house over 100 years old, but no one lives there. The owners are long since passed away and the children and grand children keep up the pretense to keep the property from being vandalized. As I was coming around the corner something at the edge of…

(« Confrontation » by cordalth)

« Polygraph » is intended as a portrait of human relationships turning to the sour, hinting at the necessity of constant kindness and genuineness. The suite lasts about ten minutes and is composed of the following four sections : « Exposition, » «…

(« Introspection » by
Alberto Baumann)






« Introspection I » is the third part of « The Chrome Lake, » and its first section with vocals.


As implied by the title, the piece is about looking into oneself. More precisely, it speaks…

..wachiiya from Northern Ontario..I havent been in here for awhile..alot has happened since my last update. Thank you for the birthday greetings, I appreciate it. Soon after my birthday my father got sick..he ended up in the hospital a few times over the couple of months he was sick but sad to say my father has started his journey into the spirit world. It was a real hard time for my family to see our father suffer the way he did but I know now he is with our ancestors..my father was a…

(«
Goldfish Pulling a Snail Cart » by James Pollock)






« Perseverance » is the fourth of the series of…

My dearest friends, please pray for my dearest and closed brother and friend Michael Thunderhorse, he is in big trouble of life and health, he needs your help! Wa-do, thank you, danke schön, from all of my heart!

(« The flying » by Anchise Picchi)

i remember, once, i couldn't walk

sure, i could move by myself

but i couldn't walk

perhaps, i didn't feel the need to

possibly, i was happy crawling on hands and knees

yet, i could see

and from what i could…


(« 
Newton » by
William Blake)

it was a path, a road, a way forward

it was not just any other day

yet, in a sense, it could have been

had it been the unusual sunshine

the melodies of the birds

or something in the air

lures…

(« 
Glass of Beer and Playing Cards » by Juan Gris)





everyday was the same

but she wouldn't notice

oblivious to the game

that had become practice



well, many times she had

but she couldn't stand it

it always felt so bad

better to deny it



rising up as a…

(«
introvert-study » by Robert___T)






« The Chrome Lake » is the core middle part of the « Entering The Stream » trilogy. Lasting a little over 12 minutes, the composition depicts an…

By ICTMN Staff July 11, 2012

As more details emerge about the ancient city dubbed Mantle, near Toronto, Ontario, it is becoming clear that this is one of the major archaeological discoveries ever made in North America.

Canadian television viewers got an introduction to the story on Monday night via the documentary The Curse of the Axe, but a report from LiveScience.com tells more. Lead archaeologist Ron Williamson calls Mantle “the largest, most complex, cosmopolitan village of…

(«
Detail of a poster for the International Hygiene Exhibition 1911 in Dresden » by Franz von Stuck)






« Understanding » is the third…

(« Effect of Butterfly » by Anastasiya Markovich)

The third part of « The Idler » is entitled « Upward. »

The idea behind the movement is quite simple : once the necessity of evolution has been recognized and accepted, there’s…

(«
Between the waves » by 
Ivan Aivazovsky)


The seventh chapter of « The Dam » is entitled « Flow » and presents the situation once the…

(« Multiac Nylon » by poligraf)

« Sooner Or Later » does not comes from Poligraf's catalogue as such. Rather, it is a piece for solo guitar that I intend to publish on an album of about…

(«
Underwater World » by Felipe Skroski)






In the storyline of « The Dam, » once the obstacle is recognized and the necessity of the conquest accepted, the protagonist must…

(«
Lebenslauf » by Adi Holzer)






« Vigilance » is the second of a series of short segues that I have composed in order to combine already existing pieces into one larger, continuous…




(« Mainspring on a Sea-Gull ST16 movement » by Hustvedt)






« Chronoscope » is the second movement of « The Idler. » In the storyline of the suite, this section is a reflection on the passage of time that culminates when the…

(« Moonlight Night on the Volga river » by Vladimir Ivanovich Ovchinnikov)

The second part of « The Dam » is entitled « River » and expounds the original situation, before the obstacle is recognized and dealt…