Once So Bright

“Circulation

While the works of Arent Weevers for which I’ve composed each create their own universe, they share a defining idea of time: that all returns, that all repeats. It reminds me of a current notion in theoretical physics in which space (and thus also time) consists of an impossibly fine fabric of repeating loops. A fabric at once woven in us, around us and of us.

The first two words of Once So Bright suggested to me a beginning, middle and end but one within an endless procession of lights – or better – lives which hold eternal recurrence as self-evident as the circulation of blood or of breathing.

I’ve often felt that the only music which would really move hand in hand with Arent’s circular images would be a score in which all its possibilities would sound at once. Some very distant and moving towards us while others would be fully present and yet moving away. A music in which sounds unfold and fold back into themselves in an eternal dance of coming and going.

That such a music seems each time to escape my grasp keeps me curious, searching, turning and returning.”