aporias

aporias

for string quartet

Commissioned by the JACK Quartet. Duration: 26′

I will prove my right to contradiction is my own, or so I have told myself.

I. Occursus, a joining. Cum disiunctae ab invicem voces et concorditer dissonant et concordant said Guido, and so I learned to do so and promptly forgot. So will you.

II. Allah, هُوَٱلظَّهِرُ وَٱلْبَاطِنُ ۖ, both hidden and manifest. There is no outside-text, said Jacques, il n’y a pas de hors-texte. Or is that there is nothing outside the text, said Gayatri. I heard it both ways, and so promptly forgot both. And so will you.

III. A song with no end, آهنگ بی زمان, or maybe my favorite song. So much so I forgot how so I like it, and so I forgot to say so, and so will you.