Tuesday, January 24, 2012

...to the music of time

Charles Rosen, on Elliott Carter:

"We do not measure time regularly, like clocks do, but with many differing rates of speed. In the complexity of today’s experience, it often seems as if simultaneous events were unfolding with different measures. These different measures coexist and often blend but are not always rationalized in experience under one central system. We might call this a system of irreconcilable regularities."

"We live life forwards, but understand it backwards."


2 comments:

Roxana said...

this is not finished, isn't it? :-)

Anonymous said...

that's right! sorry. should have added: "..."

will try and get back to it later. but at the moment my mind is elsewhere.

later,

k.