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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Constructivist assemblage

Form
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 poem built from disparate elements in the manner of Constructivist art

Detailed Definition
Constructivist assemblage is a poetic form influenced by the Constructivist art movement of early 20th century Russian avant-garde, emphasizing the poem as a constructed object assembled from disparate materials rather than an organic expression. In this approach, texts, fragments, images, and typographical elements are arranged according to principles of geometric composition, juxtaposition, and visual design. The assemblage nature foregrounds the poem's artificiality and its construction from pre-existing materials, challenging traditional notions of poetic inspiration and unity. This technique reflects modernist concerns with fragmentation, industrial aesthetics, and the materiality of language itself.
Example
Example in poetry:
Constructivist assemblage: Modernist poems built from fragments like collage; Pound's Cantos assembling historical pieces; Williams' spring wheelbarrow constructed from simple parts; Poems built rather than organically grown
Additional Notes
Constructivist assemblage|A poetic form influenced by constructivist art, assembling fragments, sounds, or images into new structures; emphasises creativity through recombination.
Also Known As
avant-garde collage structural montage modernist construct Constructivist collage
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