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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.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard


1986

Science

Discovery of High-Temperature Superconductivity

What happened

In 1986, physicists Georg Bednorz and Alex Müller made a groundbreaking discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in ceramics, which was a significant advancement in the field of condensed matter physics. Their work demonstrated that certain materials could conduct electricity without resistance at temperatures much higher than previously thought possible. This discovery opened new avenues for research and potential applications in technology, including lossless power transmission and magnetic levitation, revolutionizing various industries.

Literary impact

The 1986 discovery of high-temperature superconductivity opened new avenues for technological innovation, inspiring poets like John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich. Their poetry began to explore themes of transformation and the potential for change, mirroring the excitement and uncertainty of scientific progress in contemporary society.

Source: Wikipedia

Poets alive in 1986

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