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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headspace

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

Headspace technology captures living scent molecules for realistic recreations in perfumery.

Detailed Definition
Headspace is a modern analytical technique in perfumery where the volatile aromatic molecules surrounding a living flower or an object are captured and analyzed using a machine, allowing perfumers to recreate a scent exactly as it is experienced in the air, without damaging the source. In contemporary poetry, this concept has become a potent metaphor for the act of capturing an ephemeral moment, an atmosphere, or an essence that is intangible. It inspires poetry about the fleeting nature of memory, the "air" around a person or a place, and the technological wonder of freezing time. A poet might invoke the headspace of a room to capture its mood, or the headspace of a memory to describe the feelings that linger long after an event. It is the "snapshot" of a scent, representing the desire to preserve the transient—the way a lover smelled on a summer night, or the specific quality of light and air in a beloved landscape. This term bridges the gap between the ancient art of smelling and the cutting edge of science, making it a rich and modern symbol for the yearning to hold onto the fleeting beauty of the present.
Example
Example in poetry:
Headspace: "Headspace technology captured living rose for authentic bloom in the line."; Educational: Headspace represents capturing ephemeral reality.
Additional Notes
Headspace technology captures living flower or material scent molecules in their natural state for hyper-realistic recreations, advancing modern perfumery beyond traditional extraction. Poetry students employ headspace for authenticity and capturing the ephemeral in memory or nature poems; usage tip: reference headspace in verses about presence or pair with living rose descriptions for vivid immediacy. Related to natural, molecule, and realistic recreation, headspace highlights technological advance. This aids professors in science-art intersections, encouraging hybrid creative writing. Students appreciate how living capture mirrors poetry's attempt to seize fleeting moments in enduring words.
Other Meanings of “headspace”
Also Known As
top space volatile headspace scent fingerprint (in analysis) Ullage
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