“Blur” for vocal, piano and electronics
(Midi Keyboard, Logic Pro Software and Macintosh)

Dedicated to Olgivanna Lloyd Wright
Lyrics: The Moon and the Yew Tree, Sylvia Plath

Olgivanna Lloyd Wright was the granddaughter of Marko Miljanov, a duke and general in Montenegro. She married Frank L. W. in 1928 and became not only his wife but his collaborator who continued to run the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and the Taliesin West School of Architecture after his death.

Olgivanna was under the great influence of George Gurdjieff.

The composition “Blur” is inspired by Gurdjieff. As Olgivanna wrote in her book The Struggle Within about “daydreaming blur,” the lyrics of Sylvia Plath serve as a base for presenting inner struggles of the individual. Different mechanisms which exist as a construct of each human being, that Gurdjieff’s work presents, serve as a base for developing structure and dramaturgy of the piece.