The spider holds a Silver Ball

I sometimes like to take Emily Dickinson's 19th century poetry and recast it inside music that takes on the 1960s psychedelic approach. If severed from the drug associations, this style opens up paths to use sounds in unconventional ways which I think mirrors Dickinson's startlingly novel use of language and observation. This poem is a short tale of a productive spider and its mundane domestic fate, a metaphor perhaps for our artistic potential and responses.

The Parlando Project takes various words (mostly literary poetry) and combines them with original music in different styles. We've done nearly 850 such combinations, and you can hear any of them and read about our encounters with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org