Ramanujan of music

A tribute to Jacob Collier

Hearing more than the ear can hear

note's puzzle pieces, fall and climb

pitches, chords, rhythms, harmonies so clear

Scales align, painting in musical pictures sublime

Playing audience symphonies, as an instrument

brushing blues into jaz, pop colors into originality

a portrait of human emotion in semitone increment

virtuoso, choral master, composer of song's humanity

Melodies you know in perfect harmony and rhythm flow

dissonant torn notes, perfume, musical flowers anticipant

strokes of rainbow prism scales flow and grow

voices of listeners turn active participant

First memory, was mother's violin over head

sixteen instruments played, one reinvented

Pitch perfect, rifts of rainbows, blues into red

sprouting seeds of genius fermented

Reviews

[Fabian G. Franklin]

The prodigies among us are always gifts of richness and complexity. I enjoyed your tribute.

[Soren]

thank you Fabian can't help but fall in ahh of those so far above my own capabilities. It is the same ahh that I feel watching nature unfurl its greatness. Thanks so much for the read and comment it is most appreciated.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

I understand too well. I've been playing guitar for about fifty years but I see masters of the instrument much younger than I. I love the great blues guitarists.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this has its own chords...
and there is a beat to this...the puzzle pieces puzzle in harmony...
writing about genius is challenging as we try to pay perfect tribute...
none of the notes here seem off at all...the harmony flows.
j.

[Soren]

Thank you Jacob appreciate the kind words yes so true it is most humbling to pay tribute to a genius in that the words meant to honor are never as great as the one they honor.