Scalar Class Project: Loss

General Description

Dawn, by Alan Sondheim, is an electronic poem about a person coping with the inevitable loss of their Father. The piece makes use of changing images with a constant background noise to show the flow of time. The images in the background range from calm pictures of bright green plants with light mist, to a dark swamp with impenetrable and foreboding fog in the distance, and they loop back around infinitely until paused. The change in tone created by the background does not mirror the flow of the tone created by the words, because nature is not connected to a human's strife. The end of the world in one perspective doesn’t even register from the perspective of a forest. The sound also remains constant and provides a sense of stability throughout the piece. The simple crackling with vague sounds of rustling branches and natural sounds further isolates the words from the feeling of the poetry. The piece shows the difficulty of moving on and the dichotomy of both beauty and cruelty in nature. The caption of this image summarizes the feelings of the speaker, with their frustration of both the wonders of life and how temporary it is, and how impossible it is to halt the flow of time.

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