My Oblique Strategy was "Disconnect from Desire". I duly set about trying to write a song. I can't write songs, though, only abstract noodlings; nor can I sing. I thought it might befit me better to link the theme to a decent stretch of poetry and try to echo some sense of mournfullness, isolation, coldness, ambivalence... some sort of emotional tension... using the music. So I did.
The poem is "Postlude" by William Carlos Williams, read from an archive recording by the man himself. The music is trying to be lush, warm, something else - but I tried to hold it back, and there is something frustrating about it, a lack of climax? Arf! This is kind of deliberate. Subdued eroticism, but deeply electronic, quite cold. And it peters out to a quiet goodbye.
There's a reversed recording in the background of some people having sex. Just in case you were wondering what that was.
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