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I wanted to write a piece consisting only of informal assemblages of utterly simple (could we say transparent?) musical elements and patterns – to turn music towards a state of nature, or grace perhaps. A kind of sonic classicism, sound sculpted into the most basic geometric figures. There are 144 of these figures, grouped using chance into 28 vitrines of similar length (though there are some doubles and one triple). Alberto Caeiro, one of the writer Fernando Pessoa’s heteronyms, claimed himself to be ‘the only poet of Nature’, for whom ‘What matters is to know how to see,/To know how to see without thinking’. A typical example: Lightly, lightly, very lightly
A very light wind passes,
And it goes away just as lightly,
And I don’t know what I’m thinking,
Nor do I wish to know. (Poem translated by Richard Zenith.)
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