To A Steamroller

I had worked on setting this 1920 poem by Marianne Moore to music for a few weeks, but it wasn't until a couple of days ago that I had a shock of recognition: the words of this poem could be read as a comment on our own era's confrontation with Artificial Intelligence ("AI"). Listen and see what you think.  The Parlando Project takes various words (mostly literary poetry) and combines them with original music in differing styles. We've done over 900 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them and read about our encounters with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org