So I've recently presented most of the rhythms for my poem that I'm going to set to music. I'm setting "Constantly Risking Absurdity" and I think that my rhythms for the most part are going good. As for my instrumentation, I'm between piano, cello, and violin or tuba trombone and trumpet. Since the poem compares the risks of being a poet to a tightrope walker I want to give a "circus-ie" feel, with unstable rhythms and motion to portray an unbalanced feeling of walking on a wire.
Those are my ideas so far, I present some music on friday and we'll see how that goes!