3) THE CRACKLE OF FORESTS aug-dec 99 For a large number of solo instruments and a mass of brass.
Early in August 99 a conversation happened about how artists might be expected to respond to such "signal events" as eclipses or the ends of millennia. Is there an interior way of doing this? I'd been thinking about David Connearn's work with many hand-drawn lines (this piece is for him) , and had also recently re-seen Tarkovky's Stalker with its characteristic moments of wind or light moving across fields of grass. All impressions are formed from multitudes, from the regularities of ceaseless flux in fields of minute elements. A change of light or pressure, and the flow takes another form : this is the moment at which the absolutely ordinary gives birth to the extraordinary : all, of course, made from the same matter and driven by the same equations as before....
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