Program Notes
Heart of Mephisto
Sept. 2002
Joseph Waters
The intention was to create pulse music based
on sounds and rhythms produced by living organisms. The heart changes mood
constantly, its beats are rounded at the shoulders lub the heart
in systole dubthe heart in diastole. Such a precisely and oh so
sensitively imprecise pump. A pump! Unglamorous word! Sewage pump sump
pump blood pump. The closure of the mitral and tricuspid valves makes
the first heart sound. Closure of the aortic and pulmonic valves finishes
the cycle four valve pump what flows through it? Rivers, thoughts
rivers of thoughts plans conceits desires!!!
hate!! revenge plans plans PLANSlovetendernessquiet
morning by a lakea hummingbird flutters through the slender passages,
hovering momentarily in the thin chambers then shooting throughsleepless
nightsraging torrentsthick red sewagemagmamolten subterranean
fireSystoleDiastoleSystoleDiastoleSystoleDiastole
finally
the heart at peace
stops
return to home