Christabel

from Unknow by Eidon

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'Christabel' is a Grundgestalt that was created by processing the words in the first two stanzas of S. T. Coleridge's "Christabel" with the algorithm at gitlab.com/Eidonko/HeartQuake. The audio material was further elaborated by excluding and repeating certain fragments.

lyrics

The input to the Grundgestalt generator was as follows:


Beneath the lamp the lady bowed,
And slowly rolled her eyes around;
Then drawing in her breath aloud,
Like one that shuddered, she unbound
The cincture from beneath her breast:
Her silken robe, and inner vest,
Dropt to her feet, and full in view,
Behold! her bosom, and half her side—
A sight to dream of, not to tell!
O shield her! shield sweet Christabel!

Yet Geraldine nor speaks nor stirs;
Ah! what a stricken look was hers!
Deep from within she seems half-way
To lift some weight with sick assay,
And eyes the maid and seeks delay;
Then suddenly as one defied
Collects herself in scorn and pride,
And lay down by the Maiden's side!—
And in her arms the maid she took,
Ah wel-a-day!
And with low voice and doleful look
These words did say:
'In the touch of this bosom there worketh a spell,
Which is lord of thy utterance, Christabel!

(Christabel [excerpt], Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1772-1834)

credits

from Unknow, track released May 26, 2022
Algorithm and arrangement by Eidon.

Picture:
May Prinsep as Christabel. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1866. "'Yea, she doth smile, and she doth weep, / Like a youthful hermitess, / Beauteous in a wilderness.' – Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Created 1866. May Prinsep (1853–1931). Contributors: Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879). Work ID: ac7zfwg2.
www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/YW027589V/May-Prinsep-as-Christabel (Public Domain Mark).

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Jazz, neo-classical, avant-pop, generative.

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