I sometimes like to take Emily Dickinson's 19th century poetry and recast it inside music that takes on the 1960s psychedelic approach. If severed from the drug associations, this style opens up paths to use sounds in unconventional ways which I think mirrors Dickinson's startlingly novel use of language and observation. This poem is a short tale of a productive spider and its mundane domestic fate, a metaphor perhaps for our artistic potential and responses.

The Parlando Project takes various words (mostly literary poetry) and combines them with original music in different styles. We've done nearly 850 such 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

Another Summer departure from our usual fare. In this satire I appear as guest on a podcast about Folk and Americana music to discuss some new protest songs decrying the current American administration's tampering with famous Universities.  There's a special reveal in last minute of this piece.

What is our usual thing? The Parlando Project normally combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done over 800 of these combinations, and we'll do more soon. I expect them to be better and worse than the songs featured in today's piece. You can find all our pieces and some writing about the experience of making them at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

I made this song using an extraordinarily musical sonnet by Elinor Wylie. I think her sonnet, and now this song, speaks about the desire to escape fate by fleeing to an Edenic place — but wait, deathly undercurrents are aleady there.

The Parlando Project combines various words, mostly literary poetry, with original music in differing styles. We've done over 800 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them and read about our encounter with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

As I approach the 24th anniversary of my late wife's death, I decided to perform this Child Ballad about the closeness and separation of lovers. 

The Parlando Project generally combines other people's literary poetry with original music, but this time the piece's music as well as the words are by that prolific and mysterious author and composer Anonymous. We've done over 800 combinations over the years of the Project, and you can hear any of them by visiting our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org