for solo piano (1995)
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I – Drum: Procession
...he had set himself again to the great task of formulating the laws of
world harmony... There arose in the sky outside a vehement clanging. Kepler turned an
ear to it and smiled. "Bells," he said.
— John Banville, Kepler: A Novel
II – Fallen as Salt, Scattered as Stars
Someone had once said to her that the sky hides the night behind it. At
any moment the rip can occur, the edges fly back...
—
Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
III – Drum: Soma
Perhaps every organism is caught in the incapacity to bridge all the logical
levels involved in any given message, so these must somehow be collapsed.
—
Gregory and Mary Catherine Bateson, Angels Fear: Toward an Epistemology of the Sacred
IV – Phases of Fire, Insistence of Light
Wisdom is the brightness of light everlasting.
—
Origen, In Jeremiam Homiliae, IX, 4
V – Drum: Child
Higher consciousness is equivalent to being all alone in the world.
—
C.G. Jung, The Psychology of the Child Archetype