A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Assemblage

Viniculture
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Assemblage is the process of blending different wine lots to create a final cuvée with desired balance and complexity.

Detailed Definition
Assemblage serves as a powerful metaphor for unity in diversity within poetry. It suggests that harmony arises not from uniformity but from the thoughtful combination of distinct elements. Poets use this term to explore relationships, community, and the art of composition itself, where disparate voices or experiences are woven together to create a richer, more resonant whole.
Example
Example in poetry:
Assemblage is the blender's art, the poet said, a marriage of lots into a single harmonious voice; He wrote of assemblage as a choir of barrels, each contributing a note to the final anthem; In her metaphor, assemblage was the collagist's scissors, cutting and rejoining vintages into a new narrative; The poet saw assemblage as the act of memory—fragments of different years stitched into one consistent dream; She called assemblage the diplomacy of wine, where components negotiate their differences in a glass
Additional Notes
Assemblage is the intentional, artful blending of multiple wine components or lots, each sourced from different grape varieties, vineyard parcels, or fermentation vessels, to create a final cuvée that is greater than the sum of its parts, and it is particularly crucial in sparkling wine production, where still base wines from different years and crus are assembled into a consistent house style; this process requires the winemaker to act as a composer, balancing acidity, fruit, tannin, and alcohol, much as a poet balances meter, image, and sound, and it contrasts with monovarietal wines, where the goal is to express a single grape's character; in the context of wine law, assemblage must be distinguished from simple blending, and in poetry, it serves as a rich metaphor for creative synthesis, collaboration, and the alchemy of bringing disparate elements into harmonious union.
Other Meanings of “Assemblage”
Also Known As
harmonious blend cuvée marriage artistic composition
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