Dawnings
Motor
By Nicholas Hooper
It’s been with us for over a century now
The motor
It’s sound is inescapable
From the quiet drone of a computer hard drive
To the all encompassing noise of a low flying aircraft
Silence, real silence is impossible if you live by a busy road
The constant drone of traffic never goes away, never stops
Cover it up with music, with your noise.
To get away from its sound you have to use it to drive or fly
to a place where no motor can be heard
and that is hard but it’s possible
but in all this please
don’t forget to
listen.
—————
About Dawnings:
“Every morning at around 5am I get up and go down to my studio. After a short meditation I write down whatever is in my head, giving myself fifteen minutes to do so. Then moving over to the piano (or a more portable instrument like my Ukulele when I'm away), I improvise and record a piece of music inspired by whatever words I just wrote. It is a great way of keeping both my writing and my composing going and I call these small creations Dawnings. They are mostly unedited, like sketches, so that they keep that fresh feeling of an early morning discovery.”
— Nick Hooper