dreaming of kaleidoscopes - chris wind

poetry set to sound

“dreaming of kaleidoscopes is wonderful. I featured it on my show tonight. Thank you. Thank you.” P. J. McGregor, CKDU

“I had a hard time getting into this at first, but the longer I listened to it, the more I liked it. Wind experiments with some different effects on the second side, and I found some of this a little more interesting than the first. Her poetry explores various topics including love, abortion and women’s rights, and she does an interesting rendition of “Children Learn What They Live,” an old folkpoem. Recommended for anyone into spoken-word, coffeehouse poetry.” Kim Ware-Mathews, gajoob 1997

1. The Persistence of Memory
2. Sonata for the Dead – largo
3. Sonata for the Dead – minuet
4. Sonata for the Dead – rondo
5. lines for my love
6. cranberry and cream
7. crimson and chrysanthemum
8. aria for solo flute
9. i wake
10. Aria Cantabile
11. i spill my passion
12. counterpoint
13. you will wash over me
14. solitude on the steppes
15. nocturne
16. i hurl my screams
17. dreaming of kaleidoscopes
18. canary in a cave
19. On the increased availability of abortion for those involved
in the revolution or Mirrors in a Funhouse
20. Can she bake a cherry pie? (wondering about U Soe Myint’s torturer)
21. rerun
22. Children Learn What They Live
23. Variations on a Scream – from Memoirs of a Daughter
24. Variations on a Scream – from Memoirs of a Tuba Player
25. Variations on a Scream – from Memoirs of a Geriatric Nurse
26. Variations on a Scream – from Memoirs of a Child
27. Variations on a Scream – from Memoirs of an Office Worker
28. Variations on a Scream – from Memoirs of a Litter Picker
29. crease flip crease flip crease flip
30. my niece’s wedding album
31. we move
32. behaviour modification class
33. to be led
34. we were all at the pub one night
35. Final Jeopardy
36. tears erode
37. like a whale

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Credits:

violin on “behaviour modification class” – Lowell Greib

thanks to Shirley Gould for the text of “to be led”

all other performance and production – chris wind

cover background by www.grsites.com

“Thanks for sending your dreaming tape. It’s very enjoyable. It’s quite a beautiful tape and thoughtful too. It also has a certain caustic edge at times that I like. The production is excellent throughout the cassette and the voice is nicely mixed and easy to understand. I’ve played a couple of short things on the radio so far but you can bet I’ll be airing quite a bit of this one.” Don Campau, KFR

Albums (cds, mp3s, and sheet music)