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Porch Swing Orchestra is an art project that pairs music recorded outside with photographs made on-site. Performed and recorded at home and away, solo and with others – birds, guitars, and trucks conspire to form a chance-operated orchestra of delight.
The Podcast and YouTube streams include the most current PSO piece along with randomly selected pieces from the past. This edition includes a beautiful poem written and read by Emily Scarlet Kramer, originally posted in the heady months of April 2020. Its message of hope and care feels just as urgent today.
no.211’s title was inspired by poetry, so it’s fitting that the Pod and YouTube streams also feature the medium.
Also in the streams is PSO no.50 from March of 2019, a piece inspired by Wallace Steven's book of poems Spring and All. In my introduction, I reproduced the following fragment from this book-length poem that might as well be the PSO credo.
Our orchestra is the cat's nuts
– Banjo jazz with a nickleplated
amplifier to soothe
the savage beast –
0:00: no.211 I + Bird + Music Create a Universe the Size of a Bathtub, June 20, 2023
3:06: no. 58 | Sundials and Sirens, June 13, 2019:
4:36: no.186 Gleaming the White Cube, Lora Reynolds Gallery Oct 19, 2022
6:20: no. 93 Tune Poem, poem written and read by Emily Kramer, April 26, 2020
8:11: no. 207 From Where I Sit, May 4, 2023
10:21: no. 50 Spring and All March 19, 2019
LINKSOG PSO site at https://porchswingorchestra.org/See the images and listen without the introduction at https://youtu.be/LZbjJIkQ5oQPSO Newsletter https://porchswingorchestra.substack.com/
Get full access to Porch Swing Orchestra at porchswingorchestra.substack.com/subscribe
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By Barry StonePorch Swing Orchestra is an art project that pairs music recorded outside with photographs made on-site. Performed and recorded at home and away, solo and with others – birds, guitars, and trucks conspire to form a chance-operated orchestra of delight.
The Podcast and YouTube streams include the most current PSO piece along with randomly selected pieces from the past. This edition includes a beautiful poem written and read by Emily Scarlet Kramer, originally posted in the heady months of April 2020. Its message of hope and care feels just as urgent today.
no.211’s title was inspired by poetry, so it’s fitting that the Pod and YouTube streams also feature the medium.
Also in the streams is PSO no.50 from March of 2019, a piece inspired by Wallace Steven's book of poems Spring and All. In my introduction, I reproduced the following fragment from this book-length poem that might as well be the PSO credo.
Our orchestra is the cat's nuts
– Banjo jazz with a nickleplated
amplifier to soothe
the savage beast –
0:00: no.211 I + Bird + Music Create a Universe the Size of a Bathtub, June 20, 2023
3:06: no. 58 | Sundials and Sirens, June 13, 2019:
4:36: no.186 Gleaming the White Cube, Lora Reynolds Gallery Oct 19, 2022
6:20: no. 93 Tune Poem, poem written and read by Emily Kramer, April 26, 2020
8:11: no. 207 From Where I Sit, May 4, 2023
10:21: no. 50 Spring and All March 19, 2019
LINKSOG PSO site at https://porchswingorchestra.org/See the images and listen without the introduction at https://youtu.be/LZbjJIkQ5oQPSO Newsletter https://porchswingorchestra.substack.com/
Get full access to Porch Swing Orchestra at porchswingorchestra.substack.com/subscribe