DU:: nouvelle prière bouddhique 度

for SATB, percussion, and piano

SATB, percussion, and piano 9′

Program Notes

buddhist furry calculating what sins to commit to get reincarnated as the animal they wish they were. like a darts player. — @gardenofdelete998

I composed this because I wanted to write a “requiem安魂曲” that believes in rebirth and can be sung to non-human creatures. It is about pan-Vedic temporality, repetition and infinity (dpal be’u), immense size of numbers, manifestation, reincarnation (Wiederkunft-Samsara), contingency and eternity, “fontanelles of the new-borns” and “the ossification of Homo Duplex”, “Mount Meru in a mustard seed”, 8·10-18 seconds of impermanence, and obstacle-less.

節目說明

以「相信轉世,並可作用在非人類之上的安魂曲」為理念創作了這部作品。關於「重現Wiederkunft輪迴Samsara」的汎吠陀時間觀、重複與無窮(盤長)、巨大數字、正念、偶然和永遠,「新生兒的囟門」和「Homo2Du-plex1的骨化」、「芥子須彌」、剎那無常及無礙。

Premièred by Swarthmore Garnet Singers conducted by Nathan Reiff; Chung Sze Kwok, piano; Spencer Klaw Kennedy, percussion on April 25, 2025 at Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore, PA