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Cool!

This is acually how my parents met

It is such a great honor indeed to be composing "virtual implosion" for such a prestigious group of new music performers as Ensemble Mosaik. Composing the work primarily through the rigorous years where a global pandemic had confronted all of us, I saw the wounds of the world totally underscored; for not only that our very lives had to be disrupted, as we were all to live in isolation for constant fear and anxiety, but also because certain sectors of society-those living in a hand-to-mouth existence in crowded urban shanties like in Manila-have had no other recourse but to take great risks to go out into the streets to survive. “(Yes,) if we go out in the streets we might catch (the virus) and die, but this is the only way we can make a living…” they would tell me, as they collected empty plastic bottles, soft drink cans and any other remnants of modern living they can gather to sell in local junk shops to earn just enough to get through the day! I have based "virtual implosion" on two existing works: structurally on Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 132 (1826) and conceptually on Mathias Spahlinger’s “sound mural” with the title: in dem ganzen ocean von empfindungen eine welle absondern, sie anhalten ("in the whole ocean of sensations separate off a single wave and stop it"/1985). I intended that "virtual implosion" be an expression of the desire for healing as with Beethoven's Op 132, and just the same, provide a face, a body, an entire community of urban poor, in fact a whole social milieu to the realities expressed in the Spahlinger work! Lastly, I formulated the title of my composition for two reasons: (1) to acknowledge the oxymoronic nature of “reality as being virtual”, as such has been the nature of social interaction, in fact, of cultural production during the pandemic; and (2) to advance the potential of an internal source of transcendence…a socio-cultural “implosion”, so to say…to address a social reality that is equally from within. It addresses the privileged sector society who no-longer sees the disorder of extreme material destitution as a disorder, but as an "a priori" factor of modern life. Thus, the title ‘virtual implosion’; a piece of work whose actual trajectories are those who are able to experience art, in hopes that their consciousness can be raised as to take part in various opportunities for actual liberative action for the urban poor especially in the so-called "third world". To that end would I consider this piece of work to be transcendent!

sodelicious

quite good...

Nice piece!

素晴らしい

quite good!

superb

isch coool ha ha danke like much better then all the other scheiß...............

“As an artist, I'm going on, to think, and to exhibit the reasons I have to stop, but maybe or sometimes no way surely enough ...”

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