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*Stimmung* now I have to blody well lookup these foreign words -disadvantage of being unlearned --Stimmung, for six vocalists and six microphones, is a piece by Karlheinz Stockhausen, written in 1968 and commissioned by the City of Cologne for the .. Stimmung (Ger.). Mood. 1. Atmosphere or mood, hence Stimmungsbild, mood picture, title given to short comp. evoking particular mood, e.g. Strauss's 5 Stimmungsbilder, Op.9, for pf., 1883-4. 2. Tuning. Aha so it's a suburban tuning Cheers Phave glorious day -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of andrew burke Sent: 02 March 2011 01:11 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: snap: humorning Crunching on muesli, dog crunching on biscuits, cockatoo crunching on gum nut - the soundtrack of morning, passenger jet interrupting. A poem should sound in the receiver of its reader, although *should *should be banished as 'thought censors activity'. Refrigerator hums computer tower hums my wife hums - it's suburban *Stimmung* of a sorts --- Andrew http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ 'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at http://www.picaropress.com/ http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766 http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html