Become alert to the stir of sounds.
Perceive the apparently random character of disconnected sounds, widely separated and unrelated.
But this is narrow perception compounded by ignorance of the nature of things. Attend to the rise and fall, the mingling and coalescing, the unity, dispersal, and dissolution that, seen and heard and sensed as change, is reality's essence. Time means nothing in such unity as this, and nothing is arbitrary on this scale.
As the listener may bring to realization, the composer may imagine and bring into being.
Perceive the apparently random character of disconnected sounds, widely separated and unrelated.
But this is narrow perception compounded by ignorance of the nature of things. Attend to the rise and fall, the mingling and coalescing, the unity, dispersal, and dissolution that, seen and heard and sensed as change, is reality's essence. Time means nothing in such unity as this, and nothing is arbitrary on this scale.
As the listener may bring to realization, the composer may imagine and bring into being.
