rae diamond
2022: eclipse-to-eclipse spring
Here's one recording from the past couple weeks, a bit rough still. It's as much of a meditation to listen to as it is to sing it. If folks don't like the slow and muddy beginning, it might be worth skipping ahead to the middle to hear where things are more open and changing.
rae diamond
2024: 100 thousand praises
Instrumentation: sho & voice
This music praises through 100 vocalizations total of five aspects of nature that feel sacred to me - rain, dawn, moonlight, rest, and void. The more commonly the experience of each natural phenomenon occurs on Earth, the more often it is repeated - so there are 100 praises total added up from 32 praises of rain, 16 praises of rest, etc.
The vocal section of this music takes place within 100 beats counted at an increasingly slower rate, while the sho tracks pulsate at their own rates that intertwine throughout the music at fairly constant rates. Each phenomena praised possesses its own meter, adding more layers of repetition that weave in and out of unpredictable junctures, pauses and blends. The overall effect is a soundscape in which everything is constantly shifting while conveying persistence and constancy.
Thank you again! Sending good wishes to you,
rae diamond
2023: Imbolc
flying rhizomes
rip out your roots
cross mountains
go
arrive
in a land of closed doors
wait for one to open
go inside
a dark space
remote
a place no one
would choose but was chosen
for you alone
watch the sky
see stars
come and go behind
clouds
fog
disappear in diffusion
of sunlight
windstirred spindletrunks
of trees circumscribe
invisible circles in air
circles of sky that fall
to the earth
weave unseen
rings into
a ship the shape and
color of wind
set sail on slipstreams
of owlsong in unlit
hours know not
how you will land