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.

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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European Dadaism

Movement
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

The European branch of the early 20th-century Dada anti-art movement

Detailed Definition
European Dadaism was the continental manifestation of the Dada anti-art movement (c. 1916–1924), centered in Zürich, Berlin, and Paris; it used poetry, performance, and collage to reject reason, aesthetics, and nationalism in response to World War I’s devastation.
Example
Example in poetry:
Hugo Ball’s “Karawane” uses sound poetry to reject logic; Tristan Tzara’s “To Make a Dadaist Poem” advocates chance composition; Kurt Schwitters’s “Ursonate” creates musical nonsense; Hannah Höch’s photomontages influenced Dadaist poetry; Francis Picabia’s “Manifeste Cannibale Dada” blends satire and absurdity; contemporary poets like Kenneth Goldsmith cite European Dadaism in conceptual writing.
Additional Notes
European Dadaism: The Dada anti-art movement (7164) that began in Zürich, Switzerland and spread to other European cities like Paris, Berlin, and Hanover; see Zürich-Paris movement (7171).
Also Known As
European Dada Continental anti-art movement European iconoclastic movement Continental Dadaism Dadaism (Europe)
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