Program note

Conceived as the second part of a diptych with "...and the flesh was made word" serving as the opening piece, I sought, with "Clamors of Being" to deepen my approach to textural composition. To do so, I drew on a similar structure but adopted a more detached approach in terms of energy and expression, employing subtler transitions and materials that are closer in nature to one another. On a poetic level, while "...and the flesh was made word" was grounded in a reflection that places our existence in a tension between word and matter, I would say that "Clamors of Being" seeks instead to keep us as close as possible to matter as cosmic movement, a movement beyond the Word, clamours as intense as they are impersonal—a beautiful paradox, indeed, that of matter in motion, for even what seems immutable or inert to us is, in reality—albeit at extremely slow speeds—carried along by the fundamental forces that traverse the universe, on the scale of what one might call a sort of “geological time,” clamours of Being that are at times deafening, at times inaudible…