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From the first moment I heard Arthur Rimbaud's poem L'Eternité, I knew what his eternity would sound like - hollow, slightly imperfect, persistent, and dark. In his poem, Rimbaud gives us the exact time and place where he passes into eternity - the moment when the sea merges with the sun. It's a place he revisits, in the absence of light, and contemplates his worldly existence.
By slightly altering the guitar's tuning and using open outer strings, I was able to produce, in sound, the hollow imperfection of Rimbaud's eternity. The soprano saxophone is used in a simple melodic fashion to help us contemplate the 'wistfulness' of navigating eternity - floating in and out, even hovering over the ever-present, steady guitar.
(for soprano saxophone and guitar)
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