Text excerpt:
We are stepping on music, friends,
All our discoveries bring us closer
to the unveiling of this theme.
The turbulence of the heart
A strange attractor.
The goal of the arts and sciences?
To make us better dancers.
-
David Densmore, from “Text on the Arts and Sciences”
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The overall work, "In Sideribus Domi: At
Home in the Stars", is a broad reflection on the
themes of discovery, creativity, the arts and sciences, centering on the
night sky, with gorgeous melody lines, inventive jazz harmonies and
rhythmic complexity for singers and instrumentalists. Discovery, the central movement of the
five-movement work is a samba whose
harmonies consist of the “star bridge” chords compressed. The ending
affords all the instrumentalists an opportunity to improvise over the
choir’s repeated figure. A new poem by David Densmore forms the
text of the
movement, beginning with the words, "Discovery belongs to those who are willing to be
lost", and concluding, "The goal of the arts and sciences? To make us
better dancers."
Commissioned by The Clay Center of Science and Art
for the dedication of the new museum building in Charleston, WV.
Commission made possible through the Continental Harmony Project of
American Composers Forum.
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Texts
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Discovery Third Movement from In Sideribus Domi: At Home In The Stars
Words:
David Densmore - from “Text on the
Arts and Sciences”
Discovery belongs to those who are willing to be lost, and lost, stumble
on the footing of the foundation of the new. Discovery belongs to those
who see the real as it is, often overlooked, errors and intermittency,
that hold the key to the patterns of the operation as a whole. ______
(This section
omitted from musical composition.)
The Cantor's Dust* peppers our lives
signal error, random noise,
that cracks our choral perfection with hum.
Hour, by minute, by second inevitably
(if not predictably) with cosmic regularity.
Error, which cannot be overcome by struggle
or overpowered by signal strength
is tempered only by the redundancy of the choir itself, by acceptance of
the lost and the new
by fresh discovery of the whole pressed into the myriad palms reaching
toward the door. ______
Celebrate those who realize they hold the key.
That marvelous error that planted foot
in outsider soil, seeded with a heart unafraid
to reach into the fluid maze.
We who look back can say
"that day a solid discovery was made".
Those certain poles now lit for easy entry,
once hid the spiral equation of dragon’s breath.
Step lightly over the fissures God has woven
into the atomic sidewalk; the light
is pouring through the concrete, into the shimmering world.
We are stepping on music, friends,
All our discoveries bring us closer
to the unveiling of this theme.
The turbulence of the heart
A strange attractor.
The goal of the arts and sciences?
