Composer
A little vintage video of Data track 4 from Volcano Diaries 1. Who knows what I had in mind when I wrote this track, as it was 20 years ago now, but the whole project, which comprises 2 cd’s, was based on a research project by the late Richard Batchelor MSc FGS geologist and the postcards he sent me at the time. He was researching ancient volcanic fragments in The Western Highlands. Both albums are available for download at Lindy Karpestra bandcamp
psychogeography 2
one hour later still listening
to the tree rustle and watching
grey clouds over passing
kite glide and soft rains gentle touch
breeze breathing dry leaves
rolling dancing over the weedy tarmac
campanula dandelion forget me not
magpies rattle distant and near sounding
repeating resonating the air sky chamber
as a pencil softs the grey lines
inviting transformation from passive to active
in the gaze of the last red nasturtium
What were we drawing on as we improvised in and out of synch on those piano tracks ? All the better to hear our momentary lapses and collisions ? The poem is about collaborating with invisible pianist Lindy Karpestra and what were we thinking and dreaming.
draw on
and the invisible pianist
doodling repeat loops
faces in a riff
colliding with ourselves
meeting sky and smiles
on the meadow
draw on the top lip
unevenly shaped
in two twin slopes
of asymmetrical heights
https://lindykarpestra.bandcamp.com/album/the-karpestra-dairies
In the meantime, my garden shed has been painted a lovely forget me not blue, which is perfect for showing my my new blue paintings.
about timeor the story of two pianists
listening into that time
beating piano keys beating time
from the where i was
then in that wilderness
the chords a kind of chorus
after many a summer
piano lessons peeling
into a day like today
and it’s dusting of snow
melting through spring flowers
i see a pianist waving at me
and in my waving back
i feel our palms drawing together
touching and becoming one
Listen to piano music https://lindykarpestra.bandcamp.com/album/the-karpestra-dairies
The Writing Waves project has been in the making ever since I read The Waves by Virginia Woolf a few years ago. I was deeply impressed and inspired by it ‘s poetic flow. I decided to create a new work so I set about the text of the book using a ‘cut ups’ method with a view to setting it to music following the ‘Circus On’ template by John Cage, but as I progressed with this deconstructive method I became horrified at the thought of disfiguring a great work of art, so I settled on the idea of writing some piano pieces based on the characters in the book. In time I decided to try a more media based method based on the waves ( piano music fragments) which I recorded in 2024 on my mobile phone. The film is set on the ‘portable art patio’ and connects with my Amerta Art Patio Instagram project.
…“except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it” …Virginia Woolf The Waves page one.
https://lindykarpestra.bandcamp.com/album/mantras-warszawa
NEW: on the Karpestra Dairies Bandcamp page free improvisation for solo acoustic piano by Virginia Aurora Scott/ vintage recording on a 1896 Bechstein grand.
Virginia Aurora Scott 