wHoly Trinitye, a duality ov duos – first
wHoly Trinitye.Whole=Holy( If-not “whole” impossibl-to-be “holy”)
Charles Ives’ song On the Antipodes which, being writ for piano à 4-hands i had the plejur of playing with Jim Tenney (Folkways Records FM3344) concludes with this grand thought “Is Nature nothing but eternal cosmic cycles around the perenial antipodes?”!Yes-an incontestabl & timeless truth, but note the ironic “nothing-but”. As-if anything couldbe more!This Heraclitian insight informs my works, even from the beginning(Flux & Form in the 50s)---If hadnot been contradicted by Plato woudv spared us 26 cnturies of regresiv philosofy---(and most-recentDua=Uni - in the repertory of the Hodos Ensemble, which also playes the explicit gamelan ANTIPODE of 1984on volume 3 oftheir soon-to-be-compleated 5 CD survey on Umlaut Records).There, only extremes are permitted: of register; of duration; of intensity.Can aswell be aplied to the dimension of Form, as in my recent 2 Extreemizms.
And yet the dialectique --thesis/antithesis--»synthesismakes a 1, which composed always&essencialy ov3,that-too, has always had a presens in my music.A ∆ incarnatesas a signthe solution uv the “mystery of the Trinity“ where the “middl way” is forever present.As in the soundfield uf musical substance it-is inherent the mean, mezzo, m---. In evry parameter. As in the possibles of harmony, as Perfect and Imperfect intervals and the Dissonances.Thus the piece containz only 3 notes---or atleast 3 sound-elements:Such a cosmic simplicity will be abl-to manifest itself in multiform-ways.And it hardly needs more than a minute.
2 Extreemizms
