Sound

Sound as a physical reality, touching
upon ears of our body. The gesture
of musician (shaper
of sound), moving
and molding the air, extending
through voice – and finger-
tip – to release
the vibrations within, shared
through performance (to put in-
to form) in outward space,
for audience to receive and so
be touched.

Gesture of breath and contact
in motion, touch
of wind and finger upon
wood, hair, skin and metal,
gut, ivory and felt,
bodies/objects transformed in their sounding,
as mouth releases, impressing,
the air within
outwards,
and fingers and wrist articulate
from root of spine (and deeper)
the totality of who
we are, that moment resonating
both inward impulse and outward
realizing being
one.

The musician as dancer: one who moves
space, sounding.

-Malcolm Goldstein