V2Melody is closed

A retirement project in musical poetry

This site has been switched off. It was a one-person experiment in setting poems to music and offering the results freely. Over time it grew into thousands of tracks, biographies, and notes. The work was absorbing while it lasted.

I had intended to keep the site up until January 2028, when the original hosting contract was due to end. The hosting company allowed me to leave early, so the server has been closed now. This page is hosted on a shared server I paid for until 18 December 2028.

I lately realised that the project no longer held the same place in my life. I had gone as far with it as I wanted 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.

My wife and I are simplifying our days. We live in Seville and spend most of them walking, looking, and talking. The residual obligations of a server, a domain, and the quiet sense that something still needed tending no longer fitted the quieter life we want. The pleasure was in the making. The making is finished.

The poets remain in books. Anyone who found a poem or a setting useful already has it. Anyone who did not will not be deprived of something they were relying on.