Sound and Structure

"Sound leads to structure." Schönberg.

On this dry prepared path walk heavy feet.
This is not "dinner music." This is a power structure.
heavy as eyelids.
Beams are laid. The master cuts music for the future.

Sound lays the structure. Sound leaks into the future.

Credit

From Miniatures. Copyright © 2002 by Barbara Guest. Courtesy of Wesleyan University Press