Few years ago I composed a song for a piano and 5 voices choir. I didn´t know how to play the piano but managed to play and sing all the voices for a demo and write down the music sheets . I just did this the simple way at home singing and playing for the computer and then putting it together in Garageband.
Two years later I started to take piano lessons as I want to be able to play my own music. I´m still practicing the piano and have taken the first grade (practicing for the second now). And I have composed a little more since this.
This song is both spoken and sung as it is made/thought as a visual performance on stage. It handles about disability but it´s telling my thoughts in a poem to a very disabled person whom is brilliant with it´s functional brain and disfunctional body.
The lyric is in Icelandic and if you are interested in checking my demo it can be listened to on soundcloud.
https://soundcloud.com/maria-petursdottir/geimfarinn-demo-the-astronat-demo
Here you can follow the text in a raw english translation:
The Astronat
Intro: Pitch-black darkness, pitch-black darkness, pitch-black, pitch-black, pitch-black, pitch-black, darkness, darkness, darkness, darkness...
Oh thou moonman, man of the sun and the stars.
Oh thou man with the electric voice.
How do you grasp the concept of gravity
Where do you go in your sleep?
Do you soar in your sleep between blackholes and crators burned by the flaming sun.
How do you wake up in the morning after such traveling.
Perhaps the sun has burned your skin, through a slit between your bedroom curtains. And you could n´t do anything about it. Tied to your bed.
An helpless astronaut, stranded on earth.
You must, you simply must departure.
You have to you have to departure, depart from this body of yours
Have you left your body have you left for space
the lifeline buckled on you so you'l track home bace.
Gravity is strengthened, you like a ray of light
on speed of light and leeway freed from earthbound fight.
The Horizon is shooting it´s ray of light at you
Because the blackhole it shimmers like an eye that see´s your true.
Part and subpart part and subtract sub and particle. The blackhole it shimmers like an eye that see´s your true.
Do you then get a strong handmade that pulls you up like a crane pulls up a rusty old car? Does she put the wheel´s on you and plugs you in?
Then how do you feel like? Do you still feel like an astronat from space.
Do you count the strings that hold you to the chair so you wont fall out of it. Do you count the strings in the same way you count distances and mass? Or do you manage to separate what is important to count and what is not important counting? Is it perhaps pointless to count terrestrial things? Oh thy man of distances and masses. You must, you simply must leave.
You have to you have to departure, depart from this body of yours
Have you left your body have you left for space
the lifeline buckled on you so you'l track home bace.
Gravity is strengthened, you like a ray of light
on speed of light and leeway freed from earthbound fight.
The Horizon is shooting it´s ray of light at you
Because the blackhole it shimmers like an eye that see´s your true.
Part and subpart part and subtract sub and particle. The blackhole it shimmers like an eye that see´s your true.
Is your brain like the firmament and the rest of your body maybe planet earth? If that would be the case then the earthy must matter as well. At least in the bigger context. The blood floats through your veins down to your hands and all the way to your toes. Up to the heart and all the way to you brain. You could´t be the astronaut you are a man of moons and suns a starman if there would n´t be a blood stream inside your body. And even though your hands and fetes are bound they must have a purpose in the same way that the earth goes around the sun and has it´s place in this powerful energy of a milky way that holds everything on the right track. All your stars, the moons, the fireballs, blackholes and mesosphere. you are like a particle and a subparticle but still your heart and stomach is even bound. Thy man of the moon, man of the sun, you must depart, you just must leave.
You have to you have to departure, depart from this body of yours
Have you left your body have you left for space
the lifeline buckled on you so you'l track home bace.
Gravity is strengthened, you like a ray of light
on speed of light and leeway freed from earthbound fight.
The Horizon is shooting it´s ray of light at you
Because the blackhole it shimmers like an eye that see´s your true.
Part and subpart part and subtract sub and particle. The blackhole it shimmers like an eye that see´s your true.
How do you feed and prosper physically and mentally? Do you feed differently from other explorers and surveyors? Do you even have to have an opinion or taste if you get your food through a plastic tube? Have you at some given time lost your appetite on the life in space? Denied the crane driver of pulling you up or do you even get a chance to deny or decline anything as you are pulled up by the handmade before she plugs you in. Oh astronaut thy mighty explorer, you must depart.
You have to you have to departure, depart from this body of yours
Have you left your body have you left for space
the lifeline buckled on you so you'l track home bace.
Gravity is strengthened, you like a ray of light
on speed of light and leeway freed from earthbound fight.
The Horizon is shooting it´s ray of light at you
Because the blackhole it shimmers like an eye that see´s your true.
Part and subpart part and subtract sub and particle. The blackhole it shimmers like an eye that see´s your true.
I feel like you have such a callous relationship with the earthly. But maybe it´s just me whom has to step out of this relationship and find a method to explore my own scale and my own landscape in the universe. I know I´m asking you but moonman, man of the sun, the planets, man of masses scales and distances, don´t answer my mathematical example. My question is not so important in a bigger context. My question is maybe like Hydra an orbit that not so many know of and is not so important to know. But oh thy man of masses and longitudes, you must leave your body.
You have to you have to departure, depart from this body of yours
Have you left your body have you left for space
the lifeline buckled on you so you'l track home bace.
Gravity is strengthened, you like a ray of light
on speed of light and leeway freed from earthbound fight.
The Horizon is shooting it´s ray of light at you
Because the blackhole it shimmers like an eye that see´s your true.
Part and subpart part and subtract sub and particle. The blackhole it shimmers like an eye that see´s your true.
Have you left your body, have you left for space?
The lifeline buckled on you so you'l track home bace.
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It would be grate to get comments and notes on my translation as English is not my first language ;)
Have a grate day steemians!
M.