Elements of Mind

from NeurOnFire by Iambic Beats

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What is a memory? What is a mind? If you're like me, these are questions that seem easy to answer until you actually try to articulate them. When I read this poem by Paul, I felt it encompassed what it meant to feel and to remember. I began playing with chillwave music to accompany the piece and before I knew it, the song grew from representing what it meant to have a memory to what it means to exist and be human in this world.

I played with found sound, music, and recordings from all over the world (elements of nature, folks speaking and singing in various languages, etc.). And as you've come to expect from an Iambic Beats Piece, you'll hear scientific excerpts about the definition of mind.

Enjoy this piece, it was fun to create!

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What is a memory?
What is a mind?

The sensations
The perceptions
The ideas
The recollections
The reasonings
The emotions
The desires
The imaginations
And the acts of attention and of will
These appear to be, at first glance
The elements of mind

Unformed
Chaotic splatters of paint
Decades embedded in brain fiber
These tiny swatches of pain
Ttched onto the mind’s blank canvas
Once unmarked
Now molded into imperfect forms
Like raindrops on life’s camera lens
We strain to recall or is it avoid

Still
We remember
The scent of white pine
Soft earth giving underneath bare feet
Dances celebrating equinox days
The strident cry of the jay
Quiet peace holding love’s hand

Nothing
Yet everything we have
Meandering minds reflect
Discordant images in
The flickering mirrors of our lives

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from NeurOnFire, released July 25, 2022
Poetry by Paul F. Corbeil
Performed by Melinda Smith
Audio from Book 2, Ch 1 of The Mind and the Brain by Alfred Binet

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Iambic Beats Los Angeles, California

We have so many titles. A few of mine are: scientist, poet, writer, singer, mom. I like to think I live at the intersection of music and words and always asking questions. A goddamn lovely place to be.