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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Spatialization

Performance
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 use of different locations in a room or stage to organize a poem’s voices or ideas. It makes meaning through space.

Detailed Definition
Spatialization turns the performance area into part of the poem’s form. A poet may assign separate places to contrasting speakers, memories, time periods, or emotional states, allowing the audience to hear and see relationships among them. Moving between positions can make an internal argument feel external or dramatize distance between people. This technique is especially effective in narrative, documentary, and multivoiced poetry where location helps clarify shifting perspectives.
Example
Example in poetry:
During a poem about migration, a performer can direct the opening lines toward one side of the room and the arrival lines toward the other; In a poem with several remembered voices, the reader can place each voice in a different imagined location onstage; A poet can turn toward the back of the room for a line addressed to an absent ancestor, making absence physically felt; For a poem about a crowded city, the performer can sweep their gaze across the room as if mapping streets and people around them
Additional Notes
Use separate stage areas to represent different speakers, times, or ideas. Returning to a location can help an audience track recurring voices or memories.
Also Known As
Sound Spatialization Spatial Sound
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