A Song of Snow
A piece notably devoid of notes and rests, scored for a quartet composed of silver bells, an ivory flute, a ninety-nine key piano, and a contratenor. There are conductor’s notes behind the front cover, and what are presumed to be lyrics handwritten beneath the staves. [This record houses a numen - a truth so powerful it can perhaps believe itself.]
I’m Reading…
The piece is to be performed in a darkened empty venue. The conductor is instructed to turn their back to the performers and invite those ‘beyond the pale’ to listen. When the conductor’s skin grows numb, they are to cue the contratenor to begin his solo and remain still for its duration. It warns that failing to do so will mark them as a gift to be taken by perilous patrons.
I’ve Read…
The singer languishes of ‘mem’ry cruel to remember,’ eventually giving it to ‘those forever never.’ Near the end of the song, the singer promises to reveal the nature of that memory, but the lyrics suddenly stop, an empty space unfilled. I don’t remember trying to fill it in myself. I don’t remember erasing it from the page and from my mind.
Effect: Numen: A Kind Amnesia
Mastery: Lesson: Ragged Crossroads x2
Aspects
- Mystery: Winter 10
- Subject: Ragged Crossroads
- Written in Ericapaean
- Readable
- PhonographRecord
- Thing