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The Nebula Blinks

from The Voice of Fate by Bill Boethius with Guests

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Man against the universe ...
The most pitiful david, against the most overwhelming Goliath.

The voice doesn’t just speak ‘out’ of the void,
The Voice ‘is’ the Void.

The nylon strung acoustic guitar, with its smaller voice is that tiny adversary, which I set against the larger sounding guitar synth. Augenmerk's voice then bridges the void between them, and becomes the void. So very minimal, three basic tracks: voice, acoustic guitar and synth - all expanded a little in post production.

This is not an attempt to 'set' Augenmerk's words - many have already done that in an excellent fashion.
Here I rather make a sound version of what the poem means to 'me*.

Just as the voice is the void, so here the poem is the sounds and vice versa.

My interest in etymology [which is an interest in 'beginnings'] took me to the words 'nebulae' and 'blink' as transliterations of Augenmerk's 'nebel-blicke'.
So the poem took on a different meaning; Augenmerk's personal meaning is still there, but it also takes on a cosmic sigificance for me, that of one life-form facing up to the gigantic universe.

lyrics

Nebelblicke
Die Wand wegdrücken,
die mir zu nahe kommt, mich bindet.
Wohl eher: tilgt?!
Flächenrausch, dem nichts entrinnt.
Saugt ein, verschlingt.
Bodennebel, der in Füße kriecht und steigt,
den Kopf nicht mehr trennt von sich selbst.
Bin ich umnebelt? Benebelt? Bin Nebel?
Bin ich das Kind in Wolken?
Mein Mäusebussard kreist,
Laune, die mein Wollen schafft.
Platznot ist und freie Platzwahl

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from The Voice of Fate, released September 25, 2018
Bill Boethius, acoustic guitar, synth
Augenmerk, voice

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Cosmic Jazz,
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