Inhoud
A Dream - A Phantom - A Drop of Dew - A Flash of Lightning
for violin and piano
In The Diamond Sutra, an early Buddhist text also known as The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion, the Buddha leads his interlocutor, the Elder Subhuti, through a series of questions and provocations. The Buddha then concludes the session by offering this teaching to those assembled: All composed things are like a dream, a phantom, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning. That is how to meditate on them; that is how to observe them. This duo piece is in four sections, corresponding roughly to these four disparate visions of impermanence: four distinct moments of interplay between form and emptiness, four corners of a diamond. This series of images is itself a “composed thing,” gathering dissimilar elements into a unified system. It suggests that the things we make are similar to things that exist beyond intention. The Buddha’s utterance helps us hear so-called “composition” and “improvisation” – or the encompassing category, “music” – as part of an even larger aggregate: that which forms and recedes. – Vijay Iyer
A Dream - A Phantom - A Drop of Dew - A Flash of Lightning
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