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Inside my piano a poem

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I wanted to share a little extended piano cut (i am improvising inside the piano) and a little poem of the same name that seemed to resonate with it. I started writing poetry in 1969 when I was in Courmayeur near Mont Blanc in the Italian Alps teaching English one summer. It was a lonely but interesting time as I was lucky to have a great piano tutor in Carlo Vidusso

https://youtu.be/Hc6uwUxSCyw?si=v-Rstp8Tzp_5G_g9 

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soft radio 
floorboard creaking 
soon light will emerge
it’s sway
moving word time

Exploring Volcano Diaries: A Musical Journey

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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

Writing Waves: A Musical Journey Inspired by Virginia Woolf

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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.

Writing Waves a film by Virginia Aurora Scott 2025


The Dreamy Soundscapes of Beggars Opera’s ‘If We Couldn’t Speak’

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If We Couldn’t Speak Beggars Opera

 One of my ongoing musical projects is my work with Progressive Rock Band Beggars Opera. If We Couldn’t Speak was interesting in it’s use of the spoken word and improvisational structures. I love the dreamy nature of Ricky Gardiner‘s multilayered guitars. The words are strangely prophetic as Ricky Gardiner was to become very ill not that long after this was recorded.

Beggars Opera / If We Couldn’t Speak

if we couldn’t speak
would you still hear me
if we couldn’t speak
would you still hear me
and if we couldn’t hear
would you still see me

if we couldn’t speak
would you still hear me
and if we couldn’t hear
would you still see me

if we couldn’t speak
if we couldn’t hear
and if we couldn’t see

would you still hear me
would you still see me
would you still find me

if we couldn’t speak
would you still hear me

Virginia A Scott

Amerta Art Patio

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 A Film by Virginia Aurora Scott
 https://vimeo.com/275593986

When Sarah Hyde, my Amerta Movement tutor, first suggested a project to me in October 2016, my default was to think piano. But what was to emerge was an art project with camera work, which I had already been contributing to our movement group sessions.
6 of my abstract canvases inspired by my musical improvisation work were set free in my small town garden patio movement space, to be in nature and ambient sound.
This film has been compiled from the many images and films recorded since that time to the present day, witnessing the journey so far.

https://www.amertamovement.co.uk