With whispering ambitions

Reimagined by Jeff Dungfelder.

"With Whispering Ambitions” is a new composition based on a field recording of the evening wind on Balboa Island, California. The songs inspiration comes from a T.S. Eliot poem:

“After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now        

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors        

And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions,        

Guides us by vanities. Think now        

She gives when our attention is distracted        

And what she gives, gives with such supple confusions        

That the giving famishes the craving. Gives too late        

What’s not believed in, or if still believed,        

In memory only, reconsidered passion. Gives too soon        

Into weak hands, what’s thought can be dispensed with        

Till the refusal propagates a fear. Think        

Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices        

Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues        

Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes.        

These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.” 

Listening to the wind can open one up to discovering new places within. In this piece the field recording is layered and manipulated to create an almost dreamlike state. Floating, drifting, revolving repetition that hopefully encourages you to let go. Like a whirling dervish in slow motion, shimmering electronic textures swirl inside your head. A mental Sufi dance that lets your thoughts drift with the evening wind."

Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature