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 D

Duration-dependent

Concept
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 poetic element whose meaning or effect relies on the perceived length of time in reading or performance

Detailed Definition
Duration-dependent poetry relies on the perceived or actual time of reading—through pacing, pauses, or silence—to convey meaning; central to performance and concrete poetry, it treats duration as a semantic element, where a ten-second pause may signify grief or a rapid sequence may evoke panic, making the reader’s temporal experience integral to interpretation.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem meant to be read slowly over 10 minutes to feel its weight; A haiku whose power relies on a 3-second pause after reading; A performance piece where silence between lines equals their duration; A poem using long vowels to stretch perceived time; A verse whose meaning shifts if read quickly vs. slowly
Additional Notes
Duration-dependent poetry relies on reading time—speed, pauses, or silence—to convey meaning; central to performance poetry and concrete verse; students should experiment with timed readings to experience how duration shapes interpretation; linked to "breath line" and "temporal break"; consider John Cage’s influence on poetic silence.
Also Known As
time-sensitive verse temporally contingent metrically elastic Temporal Time-based
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