June Story

Part of the 12-month series, "June Story” refers to a poem I composed in June 2018 in Greece.

 

June

You run

With your eyes

Shimmering

And with the seabirds

Flapping around

Becoming a part of your attire

Your moving shadow

Stretches into the streetlight

I think that

At one moment

Your hairs

Crash my face lightly

 

At the time I started to compose this piece of music, I was in a very different mood than the time I wrote the poem. Instead of following the light, romantic atmosphere in the poem, I eventually decided to write a work destroying it. I wanted the music to be dramatic, impolite, and in a way violent. I indeed kept this idea while composing the piece.

 

It’s funny that when I finally got to listen to the recording of the premiere, underneath the dramatic, impolite, violent surface, I could still find a strong sense of romance everywhere in the music…