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You Never Knew My Soul

from Poems: A Collaboration in Space and Time by Adina Nelu

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Worded as a confession, the You Never Knew My Soul offers a vivid portrayal of young, passionate love exploring its emotional implications in-depth. However, the impression of a pristine romance begins to disintegrate as the poem unfolds, when the occasional conflicting lines, such as “(…) I feel I must go blind”, or “the chisel [yearns] for the stone”, briefly expose fugitive facets of the destructive nature of said love. Ultimately, the facade collapses with the last words “(…) you never knew my soul.”, which act as an unexpected conclusion, even though faintly prefigured throughout the homonymous poem. This is a synth-based textural piece meant to recreate the seemingly idyllic tableau that the poem depicts.

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For me in all existence nowhere such wealth abides
As in the tender secret your gentle beauty hides;
For on what other wonder than that of your sweet charm
Would I a lifetime squander of meditation calm
On legends and on musing, and thus a language mould
That it with fleeting cadence your loveliness enfold
With chains of flowing images, and on it dreams bestow
That it ne'er till time's ending shall to the darkness go?

Today when all my being to your being is bound,
When hid in every sorrow for me a joy is found;
When you to me more lovely than marble do appear
And in your eye is kindled a ray of starlight clear
That while I gaze upon you I feel I must go blind
With so much shining wonder that floods upon my mind;
Today when is my longing so tender and so true
As is the very charm itself that does your form endue,
And stronger is the yearning that our two hearts have known
Than light that yearns for darkness, the chisel for the stone;
When my desire is boundless, so gentle and so high
As on the earth is nowhere, and nowhere in the sky;
When everything about you for me is magic spell,
A smile, a word, a gesture, no matter ill or well;
When you are the enigma of life for me the whole,
Your words now show me plainly you never knew my soul.

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from Poems: A Collaboration in Space and Time, released January 15, 2020
poem by Mihai Eminescu
translation by Corneliu M. Popescu
read by Clare Bennett
music by Adina Nelu

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Adina Nelu Manchester, UK

Romanian-born composer for film and media whose work explores the boundaries between narrative-driven music and sonic storytelling.

Commissioned by the likes of BBC New Creatives and the GMCA, she is a HMUK Do it Differently Fund awardee and was recently selected for BAFTA Crew 2021.

Currently developing a female-centred vocal EP with the support of Help Musicians UK. ... more

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