This is a meditative improvisation which follows ideas about music which I've been exploring for some time. Basically I think that what we perceive as the unfolding of music over time is really an illusion. What I think happens is that the unfolding goes hand-in-hand with enfolding (to borrow David Bohm's terms for this process), and that the totality of music is ever-present. There's no time past or time future.. time itself is an illusion. Unfolding and enfolding doesn't occur in time but as an intrinsic set of dimensional relations. Just as moving through a sculpture creates the impression of a changing perception, but where actually nothing changes, the form is ever present: the form of music is ever-present as dimensional relations. Just as the form of life - birth and death - is ever-present.
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Interesting. I've been wrestling with time for ages, especially what I've taken to be Whitehead's point that time is created anew in each actual occasion. Well I think it's his point. Perhaps the opposite to what you're saying, although in another way perhaps partly, I suspect quite a bit compatible with it. Because the immanence of the event expresses the everything-ness of the rest.
That's a beautiful phrase: "the immanence of the event expresses the everything-ness of the rest" ☺️
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