Lever du jours
(Archived from 23/07/24) My thoughts while listening to Ravel's Lever du jours for the first time:
Enchanted aviary/forest that glows with pulsing magic, life, and wonder
A flock of birds flying over a vast ocean, suddenly with no land to be seen.
We’re then brought beneath the water’s surface, cool water surrounding our skin, and we’re reminded of our own warmth. Great fish swim past, scattering schools of tiny fish like clouds of smoke.
Whoosh! Hydrothermal vent!
A shark!
We venture deeper, reaching the sea floor, that somehow shimmers with memories stored over millennia.
The shimmers form a slithering stream of light that pulses like a heartbeat, leading us along the bottom of the ocean.
The slithering light fades out. Everything is black.