Sounds & Silences

Vivid memories prompted by hearing a few stray notes playing sent me wandering through my very rich life to renew my love of particular pieces of music and songs. When I started writing poems, I recognised that, for me, music is like ekphrastic poetry. A composer responds to something and in turn there is my response to the composer. From my own experiences, I was reminded how my mental image or emotional response to a piece of music was not necessarily what the composer had in mind. Being more aware of the silences throughout a piece of music or when it comes to an end, I started to write about silence. In doing that, I realised that in our ordinary lives it doesn't exist. What is silence? It appears to be a momentary pause between one sound and the next - a heartbeat. Even if everything else can be blocked out, we can still feel or hear our own heart beating. Having got that far, I explored places where there was 'silence' and discovered what I could really hear.

Product details

• Authors: Brenda Eldridge
• Publisher: Ginninderra Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.2023
• EAN: 9781761096242
• ISBN: 978-1-76109-624-2
• No. of pages: 56
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 4 mm
• Weight: 71 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries