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Haiku Variations, by Michael Udow

from Sonic Divide by Payton MacDonald Various Projects

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composed by Michael Udow, first performed at the Pancho Villa State Park in Columbus, New Mexico, to inaugurate the Sonic Divide adventure.

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Instructions from the composer to Payton:

"Payton, below is a haiku that I have written for you as you begin your journey. At some point at the end of your first day's travel, please turn your bicycle upside down and consider this haiku. Then, using your fingers and/or found objects from around your campsite, improvise a melody, singing this haiku with improvised bicycle accompaniment . . .

In successive days, as you are riding or after your day's journey, compose a new haiku reflective of your experience on that day. At some point at the end of your first day's travel, please turn your bicycle upside down and consider this haiku. Then, using your fingers and/or found objects from around your campsite, improvise a melody, singing this haiku with improvised bicycle accompaniment . . .

Continue this process daily throughout your journey . . .

The haiku collection may be performed in public settings as you so choose by either approximately replicating your recorded performances or by creating new improvisations of the composed haiku."

the old stones listen
wind soothes my tired body
peace is from within

--Michael Udow

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from Sonic Divide, released August 31, 2019
sonicdivide.com
See the Sonic Divide film on Vimeo: vimeo.com/214775555

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