How To Sing Like a Planet (E. Alexander) - Rollo Dilworth, Rhode Island Senior All-State Chorus

How to Sing Like a Planet
Words and Music by Elizabeth Alexander

Performed by Rhode Island Senior All-State Mixed Chorus
Rollo Dilworth, conductor

Video used courtesy of Soundwaves Recording
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How To Sing Like a Planet

“Scientists now say the planet itself is generating a constant, deep thrum of noise. No mere cacophony, but actually a kind of music, huge, swirling loops of sound, a song so strange you can’t really fathom it, so low it can’t be heard by human ears.” Mark Morford, from “How To Sing Like a Planet,” San Francisco Chronicle

Let everything unfold in its own time.
Accept what’s beyond your control.
Revel in simple harmonic motion.
Turn. Rotate.

Get charged up.
Be weak. Be strong.
Don’t fight friction.
Vibrate sympathetically.
Don’t be afraid to get into a groove.

Let gravity have its way with you.
Revolve around something luminous.

Wheel, whirl,
Slide, collide,
Circle, cycle,
Amble, gambol,
Resonate, radiate,
Innovate, renovate,
Oscillate, fluctuate, circumnavigate, flow.

Bloom periodically.
Hunker down when you must.
Wobble from time to time without apology.

Know that annihilation’s possible any time,
But expect a bright tomorrow’s coming anyway.

Elizabeth Alexander

Words and Music © 2021 by Elizabeth Alexander