Uploaded November 2012 | Updated September 2026, 30 minutes ago
After finishing an online coursera.org course on modern and contemporary American poetry (yes! I took the already legendary "ModPo 2012"!) I start getting a little bit more time again to write some music.
The course was splendid and I would recommend everyone to subscribe to the next edition. One of the poems we discussed was William Carlos William's "Between Walls", and the poem inspired me to write this "Broken Glass" piece. The title of course refers both to the contents of the WCW poem, and to the broken chords and Philip Glass style music.
The recording has some mistakes. I'm having trouble with my recording device and by the time I managed to play something and make a recording of it, my right hand was getting too tired. (The piano has a rather heavy touch.)
This musical work is literally composed of pieces of broken chords. I never play it the same twice in a row. I just select fragments at random while playing. It's so much fun it should be forbidden! If you took ModPo 2012 as well, you will understand why ;-)
Tools used: yamaha gt2 digital grand piano, roland boss br-600 recorder, kdenlive video editing software, synfig animation studio for the little animation at the end of the video
Can you find the wedding bells? Feel free to leave comments!
After finishing an online coursera.org course on modern and contemporary American poetry (yes! I took the already legendary "ModPo 2012"!) I start getting a little bit more time again to write some music.
The course was splendid and I would recommend everyone to subscribe to the next edition. One of the poems we discussed was William Carlos William's "Between Walls", and the poem inspired me to write this "Broken Glass" piece. The title of course refers both to the contents of the WCW poem, and to the broken chords and Philip Glass style music.
The recording has some mistakes. I'm having trouble with my recording device and by the time I managed to play something and make a recording of it, my right hand was getting too tired. (The piano has a rather heavy touch.)
This musical work is literally composed of pieces of broken chords. I never play it the same twice in a row. I just select fragments at random while playing. It's so much fun it should be forbidden! If you took ModPo 2012 as well, you will understand why ;-)
Tools used: yamaha gt2 digital grand piano, roland boss br-600 recorder, kdenlive video editing software, synfig animation studio for the little animation at the end of the video
Can you find the wedding bells? Feel free to leave comments!
![[Experimental] Fish From Hell (1935, fragment) - close reading with Roland Integra-7 sax.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PrlLEFFMSSY/mqdefault.jpg "[Experimental] Fish From Hell (1935, fragment) - close reading with Roland Integra-7 sax.
Edit: Youtube had automatically turned off comments but this was not my intention. Probably some annoying bug that seems to be affecting many creators lately. A close reading of a 1935 documentary on fish. I think the idea behind this experiment will speak for itself: a transcription of the narrators voice is played by a Roland Integra-7 baritone saxophone. The documentary is at the same time amusing and (to modern eyes) horrifying. Whereas nowadays sea creatures would typically be described as majestic, mysterious and endangered, back in 1935 apparently standards were quite different. The subtitles are mine, based on what I could understand. Im pretty certain I got some things wrong...
Ken Smith reports: Essentially, this film is just murky stock footage of men on a fishing trawler. What transforms it into an epic tale of Man vs. The Sea is an amazing narration by somebody named Wilfred Lucas. Mr. Lucas pulls no punches; in this violent world, decent men kill every fish they meet. But thats okay, because as Mr. Lucas explains fish are evil and deserve to die.
The complete documentary in two parts (and the modern reviewer comments!) can be found on archive.org: https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Marine+Pictures%22
The thumbnail is based on a free picture from Reimund Bertrams via pixabay.com. The free horror font is from Dimas Prasetyo, aka Dmletter31 at https://www.dafont.com/dm-studio-dimas-prasetyo.d7283")
