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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Interpellation

Philosophy
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 process by which social language calls a person into a recognized identity or role.

Detailed Definition
A poem can dramatize interpellation whenever a speaker is hailed as citizen, child, worker, stranger, sinner, or lover and must decide whether to answer. The call may come from law, family, media, ritual, or an internalized voice. Poetic address makes this process especially visible because pronouns and imperatives stage the pressure of being named. A resistant poem may repeat the imposed label, distort it, or invent a new response outside its available roles.
Example
Example in poetry:
Interpellation is the process by which ideology addresses people as particular kinds of subjects, as when a poem’s “you” assigns the reader a role; A patriotic poem may interpellate its audience as loyal citizens through commands, shared pronouns, and heroic history; Claudia Rankine’s work often exposes how racialized language calls a person into a hostile social identity; A poem can resist interpellation by interrupting labels and allowing the addressed speaker to answer in an unexpected voice
Additional Notes
Interpellation describes how language, institutions, and social practices address people in ways that invite them to recognize themselves as particular subjects. A greeting, law, classroom rule, or stereotype can interpellate someone as a citizen, student, worker, or outsider. The concept is strongly associated with Louis Althusser.
Also Known As
Hailing Ideological Hailing
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