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

Home › Glossary › Letter C

concrète

Perfumery
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

Concrète is a waxy solvent extract from plants before alcohol purification to absolute.

Detailed Definition
Concrète is a technical term in perfumery referring to the semi-solid, waxy material obtained after extracting the aromatic compounds from natural plant matter using a volatile solvent. It is an intermediate stage between the raw plant and the final absolute, representing a concentrated, raw essence in its most physical form. In poetry, concrète becomes a powerful symbol of potential, the unrefined material that awaits the artist's hand to be transformed into something beautiful and refined. It embodies the raw potential of the world, the "stuff" of life that must be processed through the imagination and skill of the poet to become art. Poets may use the image of the concrète to explore themes of creation, the artistic process, and the relationship between the tangible and the ethereal. It is a metaphor for the raw experiences, memories, and emotions that are collected, processed, and ultimately distilled into the pure essence of a poem. The term invites reflection on the labor of creation, suggesting that true art is not merely an ethereal idea but is built from the concentrated, physical substance of the world, requiring a deliberate and technical process of transformation to realize its full potential.
Example
Example in poetry:
Concrète: "The concrète of rose held waxy potential before blooming into absolute verse."; Educational: Concrète illustrates raw material stage in creation metaphors.
Additional Notes
Concrète waxy extract serves as intermediate in solvent processing of delicate flowers, holding rich, unpurified aromatics before conversion to absolute for highest fidelity. For poetry education, concrète represents raw potential and patient craftsmanship in creation metaphors for revision or draft work; usage tip: reference concrète in process-oriented verses about artistic labor or pair with absolute for transformation themes. Related to absolute, solvent extraction, and enfleurage, concrète highlights extraction stages. Students gain perspective on materials' journey mirroring poetic refinement from rough idea to polished expression. Professors use it for interdisciplinary craft discussions, illustrating parallels between perfumery technique and literary composition.
Other Meanings of “concrète”
Also Known As
concrete floral concrete aromatic wax pomade (historical)
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