COSMOPOEM OF LIGHT AND SOUND


-by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
(from Spaceman Sazartinus’ Diary),
composed in June-August 1987-

Photographs (2008): Valentin Grigore
Design: Florin Stancu



1

Essential aspects
of the cosmic environment,
the light and the sound,
pillars favouring the moral convictions
in an Universe
devoid of sentimentalism.

2

We are inspired by images,
plunderers of senses,
hidden in the light.

3

The sound is also
an accomplice to the thefts,
coloring the light
and diminishing the pressure
of the twinges of conscience.

4

A quantitative feature of the light
is the luminous flux,
the primordial trap
of matter.



5

Another quantitative feature of the light
is the illumination,
which launches the question
of the space of success.

6

The uniformity of illumination
is an aberration in natural conditions
and a real possibility of artificial beacons,
created in cold blood.

7

The sound, as any being,
has three major physical dimensions:
height (that means frequency),
weight (that means intensity),
and life (that means duration).
The sound is quite a being,
but not in flesh and blood.

8

Regarding the qualitative aspects
of the light,
the brightness is a neurotic burst
of space.



9

Oh stars,
the spectral composition of the light
is a fragile organism,
which can be taken ill
by any leer.

10

Shadows -
spies of the
darkness.

11

The supreme organization
of the sound
is music.

12

At the same time,
the sound can laugh, cry, lie…
The sound without light -
the love of he who does not see.



13

About the direction of the light,
I want to say that every beam
is an infallible arrow.

14

If the light was born
from the Word,
now it certainly represents
the posterity of the Speech.

15

You can answer with sounds
to the sound,
but you can easily
lose the light.

16

However,
why are we so tolerant
to the light?
Why do we prefer it
in any conditions,
even when it passes over the threshold
of the sorrowful sensation?



17

In fact,
there is inter-dependence:
beams penetrate sounds,
giving birth to melodies,
and sounds penetrate beams,
giving birth to gravitational mirages.

18

But all these things
can provoke the dangerous phenomenon
of blinding.

19

The Universe is perfect,
that’s why it is so cold.
And for us…
variable psychoses
and the sentimentalism
as an infirmity.

20

When the brightness of a source
is deleterious
and cannot be reduced
through sounds,
we have to use
systems of protection.
I repeat:
systems of protection
against the light!




-ROMANIAN ORIGINAL VERSION-


COSMOPOEM DE SUNET SI LUMINA
(din Jurnalul Astronautului Sazartinus)

1

Aspecte de esenta
ale ambiantei cosmice,
lumina si sunetul,
cariatide pentru sprijinirea convingerilor psihice
intr-un Univers
lipsit de sentimentalism.

2

Procedam ca inspirati de imagini,
talhari de sensuri
ascunsi in lumina.

3

Sunetul este si el
complice la furturi,
colorand lumina
si atenuand presiunea
mustrarilor de constiinta.

4

O trasatura cantitativa a luminii
este fluxul luminos,
capcana primordiala
a materiei.

5

O alta trasatura cantitativa a luminii
este iluminarea,
care pune problema descoperirii
unui spatiu de succes.

6

Uniformitatea iluminarii
este o aberatie in conditii naturale
si o posibilitate reala a farurilor artificiale,
construite cu sange rece.

7

Sunetul, ca orice fiinta,
are trei dimensiuni fizice majore:
inaltimea (adica frecventa),
greutatea (adica intensitatea)
si viata (adica durata).
Sunetul este chiar o fiinta,
dar nu in carne si oase.

8

Dintre aspectele calitative
ale luminii,
stralucirea este o izbucnire nevrotica
a spatiului.

9

Oh, stele,
compozitia spectrala a luminii
este un organism fragil,
pe care il poate imbolnavi
orice privire piezisa.

10

Umbrele -
spionii
intunericului.

11

Forma suprema de organizare
a sunetului
este muzica.

12

Sunetul mai poate
sa rada, sa planga, sa minta…
Sunetul fara lumina -
dragostea nevazatorului.

13

Despre directia luminii
vreau sa spun ca fiecare raza
este o sageata infailibila.

14

Daca lumina s-a nascut
din Cuvant,
atunci cu siguranta ca acum reprezinta
posteritatea Limbajului.

15

Sunetului ii poti raspunde
prin sunete.
Lumina insa
poate sa-ti scape.

16

Si totusi,
de ce suntem atat de ingaduitori
cu lumina?
De ce o preferam
in orice conditii,
chiar si atunci cand depaseste pragul
senzatiei dureroase?

17

De fapt,
este o interdependenta:
razele strapung sunete
si se nasc melodii,
iar sunetele strapung raze
si se nasc miraje gravitationale.

18

Toate acestea pot naste insa
periculosul fenomen
de orbire.

19

Universul este perfect,
de aceea atat de rece.
Iar noi…
psihoze variabile
si sentimentalismul
ca o infirmitate.

20

Cand stralucirea unei surse
este daunatoare
si nu poate fi redusa
prin sunete,
trebuiesc folosite
sisteme de protectie.
Repet:
sisteme de protectie
contra luminii!

*

© 2009 SARM
(Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy)