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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Computational lyric

Genre
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

A lyric poem that incorporates or responds to computational processes, algorithms, or digital culture

Detailed Definition
A computational lyric is a form of poetry that incorporates algorithmic processes, data streams, machine learning, or digital constraints into its composition, structure, or thematic content, blurring the boundaries between human creativity and artificial intelligence. This may involve generating verse from real-time Twitter feeds, mapping emotional states to heart rate data, or using recursive code to mimic fractal patterns in stanzaic form. While controversial in debates about authorship and authenticity, computational lyric expands poetic possibilities by engaging with technology as both medium and subject, challenging students to consider how digital tools reshape voice, form, and meaning in the 21st century.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem using machine-learning output to explore loneliness in digital age; Verse structured by data from heart rate monitors during meditation; Lyric generated from Twitter sentiment during a solar eclipse; Poem using algorithmic constraints to mirror neural pathways; Computational elegy mapping grief through GPS coordinates of lost places
Additional Notes
Computational lyric merges poetic expression with algorithmic processes—using code, data, or AI to generate or structure verse. This may involve constraint-based writing (e.g., Oulipo), neural net outputs, or sonnets mapped to real-time data streams. While controversial, it expands notions of authorship and form. Students should explore both its creative potential and ethical questions about voice, originality, and human-machine collaboration.
Also Known As
Algorithmic poetry Generative poetry
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