RYAN HARPER

O sweet spontaneous
for Javanese gamelan and electric guitar

written 2009
performers Yale Gamelan Suprabanggo
score O sweet spontaneous.pdf



text

O sweet spontaneous
earth how often have
the
doting

fingers of
prurient philosophers pinched
and
poked

thee...

how
often have religions taken
thee upon their scraggy knees
squeezing and

buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive
gods
(but
true

to the incomparable
couch of death thy
rhythmic
lover

thou answerest

them only with

spring)

- e.e. cummings, adapt. Ryan Harper